June 12, 2009
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Date: 1998
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
We arrived in the Estacao de Oriente from Merida and this was the first visit to the building. The building definitely has an interesting look but once you start to use the building you realize that it does not work.
Estacao de Oriente
June 11, 2009
Just when I was starting to understand some Spanish we go to Portugal. We got on a bus that took us from Merida, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal. Not once crossing the border between the two countries did we have to show our passport because in the European Union you are free to move between countries unlike earlier where we would have had to go through a customs checkpoint. We then arrived in Lisbon and I once again was totally without any clue as to communicating. The one nice part was that more people in Portugal spoke English than in Spain. We came into the Santiago Calatrava designed Estacao de Oriente.
Estacao de Oriente
June 8, 2009
Location: Sevilla, Spain
As Expo ’92 was built across the street from the main city new bridges were needed to provide access.
Puente de la Barqueta
Engineer: Juan J. Arenas y Marcos J. Pantaleón
Date: 1992
Puente de la Barqueta