A 26-year-old British man has died after falling from a Spanish bridge while attempting to create social media content, according to local authorities.
The man, who has yet to be named by police, fell while climbing the Castilla-La Mancha Bridge in the central city of Talavera de la Reina, the local mayor’s office said in a statement on Sunday.
Macarena Muñoz, the city’s councillor for citizen safety, said the man was accompanied by a 24-year-old British national and the pair had travelled to the structure to “create content” for social media, Sky News reported.
Muñoz added: “We have been able to find out, they had come to Talavera to climb the bridge and create content for social networks, which has resulted in this unfortunate and sad outcome.”
She said climbing the bridge was “totally prohibited” and “cannot be done under any circumstances”, which the council had “reiterated on many occasions”.
A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office said: “We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Spain, and are in contact with the local authorities.”
The Castilla-La Mancha, the tallest cable-stayed bridge in Spain since its opening in 2011, stands over the Tagus River.
The 192-metre-high (630ft) structure consists of a main concrete pylon with multiple cables coming from the centre in a triangular shape.
