Die N-340 ist eine Fernstraße in Spanien. Sie ist über 1.000 km lang und führt von der Provinz Cádiz entlang der Mittelmeerküste nach Barcelona. Sie folgt dabei der Römerstraße Via Augusta und passiert den Arc de Berà.
The road starts at the Passeig de Josep Carner in Barcelona. It follows the Avinguda del Paral·lel, Plaça d'Espanya, Carrer de Sants and Carretera de Collblanc before becoming the Carretera de Cadiz a Barcelona and heading through a series of suburbs and industrial areas.
The road crosses the Llobregat valley with a junction with the Autovía A-2 and Autovía B-24, it heads through the Garraf (Gebirge) to Vilafranca del Penedès. It then heads along the coast to Tarragona, changing to the A7 until Cambrils, then crossing the Ebro (Ebrodelta) and on to Peníscola. Then it passes through Castellón de la Plana after which much of the road has been superseded by the Autovía CV-10 and Autovía V-21 to Valencia.
South of Valencia the road is the Autovía V-31 before becoming the N-340 after junction 536 km of the A-7. The road then heads inland with a junction with the Autovía A-35 before crossing the Sierra de Benicadell through Alcoy. The road then branches off along the Rio Torremanzanas towards Alicante. Through traffic now takes the Autovía A-36. The N-340 then passes through Elche and Murcia, where the road is at parts dangerous.[1] after which the road is downgraded and joins the A-7 for several stretches. It goes through Lorca.
At junction 516 km the road branches in two with the N-340A heading west to Tabernas and the Autovía A-92. The main N-340 becomes the A-7 past Almería until Adra where the Autopista is under construction. The N-340 passes along the coast past Motril, Nerja where the A-7 begins again. After Málaga the road heads through Torremolinos and Fuengirola before becoming the A-7 again. The N-340 re-emerges at Marbella and Puerto Banús and follows the coast south to Estepona where it joins the A-7 again to Algeciras past Gibraltar. The Autovía A-381 takes most traffic west to Jerez de la Frontera through the Sierra Blanquilla.
The N-340 passes Tarifa past the Punta Marroquí o de Tarifa. It then passes Vejer de la Frontera and ends at Chiclana de la Frontera and the N-IV. The last section is being upgraded to the Autovía A-48.
Zwischenfälle
Bearbeiten- Beim Tanklastzugunglück von Los Alfaques am 11. Juli 1978 verunfallte das Fahrzeug unmitelbar an einem Campingplatz. 217 Menschen starben.
- Am 29. August 2001 kam es zu einer Bruchlandung in der Nähe des Flughafens Málaga mit vier Toten. Das Flugzeug kam an der Böschung der N-340 zum Stehen.
Einzelnachweise
Bearbeiten- ↑ Sandman: El tramo de carretera más peligroso de España In: Motorpasio, 21 December 2006. Abgerufen im 22 July 2020 (spanisch).
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