San Pedro River Bridge Cadiz Spain

Weathered driftwood sits low in a carpet of salt-marsh scrub, the salicornia turning deep red and gold as autumn takes hold. Behind it, the old iron trestle of the San Pedro river bridge runs in a straight line toward the horizon, its silhouette holding steady against a sky and water both lit up in the same fading orange.

San Pedro River Bridge, Cadiz Spain. Photograph by Sapiens Verbum.

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Photographer: Sapiens Verbum
Subject: Historic railway bridge over the San Pedro river marshes at sunset
Location: Rio San Pedro, Bahia de Cadiz, Spain
Medium: Photograph
Series: Cadiz Seascapes

Built to carry the railway across the tidal marshes that separate the Cadiz peninsula from the mainland, the San Pedro river bridge once linked the city to Puerto Real over the same caños that flood and drain with every tide. Long since retired from rail traffic, it now stands as one of the quieter landmarks of the Bahia de Cadiz, its rusted trusses cutting through a landscape that turns brilliant red and gold each autumn as the marsh vegetation changes color.

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Part of the Cadiz Seascapes series.