St. Joseph’s Bridge

The Pont de Sant Josep is located over the old bed of the Turia, today known as the Turia Garden, between the bridges of Arts and Serranos, in the westernmost area of this bed. This historic bridge was built to connect the neighborhoods of Saïdia and Marxalenes with the city center.

Its origins as a wooden walkway date back to 1383. After suffering the consequences of several floods, it was rebuilt in stone in the early years of the seventeenth century. It was then when it was given its baroque appearance and new materials, stalls and thirteen segmental arches were incorporated.

It takes its name from the Convent of Sant Josep and Santa Teresa, and from the old Portal de Sant Josep, which was demolished in 1868 when the accesses to the city were widened, both located opposite at the time of its construction.

On its two cutters were two sculptures, of San Luis Bertrán and San Tomás de Villanueva, made by the Italian Jacobo Antonio Ponzanelli in 1693. Centuries later, in 1942 these sculptures were taken to the Trinity Bridge after passing through the Museum of Fine Arts of the city.

Today you can see a sculpture of Saint Joseph, the work of the author Octavio Vicent.

It has undergone several reforms and rehabilitations throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the most outstanding in 1906. Today it has been pedestrianized, to comply with the conditions indicated in the Catalogue of Protected Assets and Spaces of the city. Declared Good of Local Relevance.

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