Pont del Petroli, Historical pier and bridge in Badalona, Spain

Pont del Petroli is a pier and bridge in Badalona extending approximately 235 meters into the Mediterranean Sea, built with concrete and supported by metal pylons. A platform at the end provides a viewing point overlooking the water.

The first Pont del Petroli was built in 1879 by the company Suari i Canals to unload petroleum from tanker ships. The current pier was built in 1965 by CAMPSA and served as a discharge jetty until 1990. In 1982 it was the target of an attack claimed by ETA, which damaged the discharge buoy. In 2001 a group led by Josep Valls campaigned to save it from demolition, and it opened as a public walkway on 13 June 2009.

At the bridge entrance, near the Anís del Mono factory, stands a sculpture by Susana Ruiz Blanch dedicated to the history of that distillery. At the far end of the pier, a plaque bears a poem Jordi Sarsanedas wrote after visiting on 4 April 2006. A second plaque honours diver Josep Valls, named Badalonian of the Year in 2011 for leading the campaign that saved the pier.

The pier is reached from the Pont del Petroli beach, in front of the Passeig Marítim in the Progrés neighbourhood. The walkway is 235 metres long and ends at a 100 m² platform; the structure stands 6 metres above the water. The site is exposed to waves and wind, and storms in 2017 and 2020 damaged the walkway and platform.

Since 2009 the pier has housed a weather and oceanographic station run by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, one of fifteen in the Silmar monitoring network. Its instruments record wind, rainfall, pressure, solar radiation, temperature and humidity above water, and currents, waves, temperature and salinity below. A web portal publishes the data in real time.