The bridge then looked as it does in the painting "View of Zaragoza" by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1647).
Architect Felipe de Busignac restored two destroyed towers and expanded the bridge piers.
In 1789, architect Agustín Sanz strengthened the Ebro's bank at the Monastery of St. Lazarus to prevent the risk of flooding of the bridge.
The reconstruction of the bridge was of great economic importance for the development of the region and all the country.
[2] GUITART APARICIO, Cristóbal, «El Puente de Piedra», en Guillermo Fatás Cabeza, (coord.)