Witness the best sunsets in the city, the Stone Bridge will take you to the Balcón de San Lázaro, where you can get one of the best photographs that will serve as a souvenir of your visit to the city. Do you dare to cross it?

With a length of 225 meters and 7 arches, one of them buried under Paseo Echegaray, the Puente de Piedra is the oldest bridge in Zaragoza that crosses the Ebro.

Its origins date back to the founding of Caesaraugusta, in the 1st century there is already evidence of the existence of a bridge made of stone or wood, which gave access to one of the main entrance gates to the city and allowed the populations of the city to cross. northwest of Hispania.

The bridge that we currently see is from the 15th century, its construction began in 1401 and was inaugurated in 1440. At the end of the 18th century, the Parapet of San Lázaro was built to protect the left bank from flooding in times of floods.

In 1813, after the Siege of Zaragoza, Napoleonic troops blew up the archway closest to the Arrabal when they were fleeing, leaving the city cut off and preventing the Aragonese troops from pursuing them.

To commemorate the bicentennial of the liberation of the city, a Pairón was built, a monument of Mudejar inspiration made of brick, metal and ceramics.

In the middle of the bridge, in one of the viewpoints, the Cross of the Piarist Father Basilio Boggiero, built in honor of those who fell during the Sieges of Zaragoza, draws attention.

Did you know that the four bronze lions have presided over both sides of the bridge since 1991? For more than nine centuries, the lion has been the emblem of Zaragoza as a symbol of strength and power.