Friday, 30 October 2026

Expo Zaragoza

On the Ebro there is this large site used for Expo 2008. Unfortunately it looks like a combination of not so interesting stuff already looking like it should be redeveloped, or stuff that no one has much of a use for.

One cool, curved suspension footbridge.













This lot looks ok in the photos but close up is peeling and unappealng.














This bridge pavilion looks great but does also rather look like an awful lot of money spent on it without knowing what it might be used for. Now its a sort of futuristic transport museum.


























 

Zaragoza 10K and a walk down the Ebro

Our Sunday morning lie in was rudely disturbed my much noise and excitement from the street outside our windows. A cursory look out of my tiny balcony revealed a lot of runners going passed the market. There was a 10kms run going through the city!




On our last day we decided to walk all along the Ebro to the equivalent of Valencia's modern architecture, built for Zaragoza's Expo in 2008. But the first part of the walk was through older parts