Bridges_Presentations


 * VASCO DA GAMA BRIDGE **

Is located next to the site where Expo '98 stood and today stands Parque das Nações (Park of Nations). It's located on the eastern end of Lisbon, Portugal.
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**cable-stayed bridge**: the longest in Europe and one of the largest of its kind in the world. 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 **Central H-shaped pylon**s are 155m high. Reiforced concrete. Need for an alternative north-south traffic link to bypass Lisbon and reduce traffic congestion in the capital.
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 * SOLKAN BRIDGE **

 <span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal;">It is on the Solkan river near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia.
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<span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Arch bridge is the world's largest carved stone
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<span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">It is built of 4,533 blocks of stone. It is the bridge of arc constructed with great stone but of the world.
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**<span style="color: #b616b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Purpose of the bridge: ** <span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Its construction was due to the need for additional rail link between Vienna and Trieste.

<span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the state of Bavaria, Germany
 * <span style="color: #b616b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 19px;">Eiserner Steg **
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<span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px;">It is an suspension bridge.
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<span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The pilar bases were made of red sand, and the whole structure main material was iron.
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<span style="color: #1ac1c1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px;">The bridge was built so pedestrians could cross the Main river of fast and safe form. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="color: #b616b6; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">