The Jones Bridge, Manilla
Watercolour and crayon
Charlene Brown
The Virtual Paintout is in the Philippines this month. I looked for a ‘populated’ streetview again, and it was a lot easier to
find groups of people out and about here than it was in Utah last month! Here
is a link to this Streetview of the Jones Bridge in Manilla.
And
here is some interesting information I found on Wikipedia:
After floods damaged the
original Puente de Espana on the Pasig
River, construction of a replacement bridge was started in 1916 by the American
Colonial government. It was named Jones Bridge after the principal author of
the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916. This ornate Neoclassical concrete arch bridge was bordered by pillars topped with a series of statues called La Madre Filipina. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by bombs during
World War II.
After the war, the bridge was
reconstructed by the American and Philippine governments under the Philippine
Rehabilitation Act. The replacement span
is relatively bare in design, but the three La Madre Filipina statues that had
survived the bobing were preserved and moved to other locations in Manila.
