The project for the construction of the Word Bridge was born in the 2000s out of the need to connect the
Monte Porreiro neighbourhood with the civil parish of Lérez by a road to the Porta do Sol area, very close to the
Saint Saviour's Monastery of Lérez. At the same time, the aim was to improve access to the
Montecelo Hospital from the north of the municipality and the N-550 road to the N-541 and to relieve congestion in the city. The Provincial Council of Pontevedra launched the tender for the project and the works in 2007. After several ups and downs, construction of the bridge finally began in 2010. It was inaugurated on 30 December 2011 by the then Minister of Public Works,
Ana Pastor. It thus became the sixth bridge in the city. On 21 March 2012, on the occasion of Poetry Day, the writer
Fina Casalderrey sponsored an event in which schoolchildren from
Monte Porreiro and Lérez took part and proposed that the bridge be called the Bridge of the Word as a symbolic union between these two districts of Pontevedra and as a sign of harmony, friendship and encounter. == Description ==