2.-+Bridges-Presentation

__//**VASCO DA GAMA BRIDGE **//__

It’s located in Parque das Nações (Park of Nations). It's located on the east of Lisbon, which was the poor side of the capital at the early nineties, full of abandoned containers, slaughterhouses, garbage depots, junkyards, refineries and gas terminals, in short, a dilapidated area with a terrible need of redevelopment. Transforming this public dump into a quality area, decontaminating 330 hectares of land and cleaning up 5 kilometers of river front took four years.

Vasco da Gama Bridge crosses the Tagus River (Rio Tejo). It opened a second north-south passage and is part of a new way to get to Spain.
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It is a cable-stayed bridge: the longest in Europe and one of the largest of its kind. total length of crossing: 17.2 km length of marine viaduct: 9 km length of the cable-stayed main arch: 826 m (192 cables) navigation deck clearance: 47 m above water level on the North Channel reinforced concrete structure with main deck stayed to main pylons central H-shaped pylons are 155m high
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__//**SOLKAN BRIDG **//__

World’s largest arch bridge of worked stone. It was constructed in 1905. It was designed by Rudolf Jaussner and constructed by Leopold Orley. Its construction was because of the need for additional railway connection between Vienna and Trieste.

It is over the river Soča near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia.
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">With an arch span of 85 metres it is the second longest stone arch in the world and the longest stone arch among train bridges. It was built in the time of the Secession, between 1900 and 1906. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">It is built of 4533 stone blocks.
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__**EISERNER STEG (FRANKFURT, GERMANY**__)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">As all things in Germany, even a bridge appears behind an attractive history. This particular begin in 1235 when the Altebruke was the first bridge built in Germany; it was build to connect Frankfurt and Sachsenhausen, but the traffic on the bridge was horrible because all people used it, for that reason, the citizens wanted to build a new bridge and the government didn’t want another bridge for them, so they decided to collected the money to build the new bridge. In 1867 the government approved the construction of it, and the “Eisene Sted” –the suspension bridge- was finished next year after that. But when the war starts, the army decided to broke all the bridges in the area because they need to avoid enemy troops. Then, when the war was over, the American government helps German people to solve some problems, and one of them was reconstructing the bridge. Now The Bridge is not the same than before because it doesn’t have the gothic towers but still been beautiful. It looks like a modern bridge right now.