The Autovía A-76 is a proposed initial upgrade of the N-120, a highway in northern Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. There are another alternatives for this project to communicate these two northern cities, Ponferrada

Ponferrada

Ponferrada is a city in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. It lies on the Sil River, a tributary of the river Miño, in the El Bierzo valley, completely surrounded by mountains. It is the last major town along the French route of the Way of St. James before it reaches its destination...

 and Ourense

Ourense

Ourense is a city in northwestern Spain, the capital of the province of the same name in Galicia. Its population of 108,674 accounts for 30% of the population of the province and makes it the third largest city of Galicia.-Population:...

. Nowadays this highway is a project of Spanish Transportation Ministry (Ministerio de Fomento del Gobierno de España), and this will be able to be constructed in 2010; according to Strategic Transportation Civil Actuations Dossier of 2005.