209 November 2022

The National Distance University’s (UNED) Associated Institution at Segovia, in conjunction with sponsor Fundación Juanelo Turriano, delivered a university outreach course entitled Foreigners in the Modern Age city: draw, describe, understand on 28 to 30 October last.

The course concluded with a guided tour around the city for its >20 enrollees, helmed by historian Enrique Gallego Lázaro.

Link to course lectures.(In Spanish)

The 50^th ICOHTEC Symposium, to be held at Tallin-Tartu on 14 to 18 August 2023, will focus on the theme Interdependencies. From local microstories to global perspectives on the history of technology.

The deadline for submitting papers ends on 15 January 2023.

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Civil engineer Felipe Martínez Martínez, 2022 National Prize for Civil Engineering, will receive the award at a ceremony to be held at the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda headquarters on 14 November.

A tribute to honour the memory of Cristóbal Mateos Iguacel will be held on 16 November next at Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers.

The event and subsequent colloquium will be streamed.

On 2 October last, a plaque on the railway viaduct over the River Esla that bears the name of Francisco Martín Gil was unveiled in tribute to the eponymous civil engineer.

In 2018, on the occasion of the 75^th anniversary of the conclusion of the bridge, the Asociación Ferroviaria Zamora and the Provincial Council of Zamora organised an exhibition on the subject.

See page on the history of the viaduct and press coverage of the recent tribute:

La opinión de Zamora (daily edition) (In Spanish)

Zamora News galería de fotos (In Spanish)

La opinión de Zamora (Sunday supplement) (In Spanish)

See press coverage of the 2018 exhibition:

Zamora 24horas (In Spanish)

La Opinión de Zamora (In Spanish)