Puente de las Flores- Alcaldesa Rita Barberá
Flower-clad footbridge over the dry riverbed, its geranium beds replanted at extraordinary cost.
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This guide to the Puente de las Flores in Valencia starts with a number: what the city once spent, every single time, just to swap out the flowers lining this bridge over the dry Turia riverbed. It traces the display's history since the bridge opened in 2002, thousands of geraniums, murcianas and poinsettias replanted again and again to match festivals and visiting dignitaries, including a switch to white and yellow for a papal visit in 2006. Along the way the city stretched the replanting cycle to save money. Look down the line of planters as you cross the bridge.
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