Bridges_presentations

**Vasco da Gama Bridge **

===Vasco da Gama Bridge crossing the river Tagus, about 20 km from the bridge April 25. It is a cable-stayed bridge: the longest in Europe and one of the largest of its kind in the world. Its structure is reinforced concrete with a main deck stayed to main pylons. ===

===It's located on the eastern end of Lisbon which, until the beginning of the nineties, was the poor side of the capital, there was a transformation of the place, 330 acres of land decontaminated and cleaned 5 km in front of the river, all this took 4 years. This was one of the main objectives of the bridge, achieve reconstruction of the eastern part of Lisbon , also, in the Year of the Oceans, the theme of Expo '98, to which this bridge is intimately related, was "The Oceans: A Heritage for the Future", a very urgent appeal to the World to protect its seas. ===

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===Solkan Bridge is located top of the Soca river near Nova Gorica, Solkan, Slovenia. It is an arch bridge built of hewn stone , the world's largest ( between the railroad bridges  ), is 220 meters long  , and an arc of 85 meters. It was built between 1900 and 1906.===



===It is located in Germany. Was built in 1868-69 by a private company of citizens as a third bridge across the Main connecting the center of Frankfurt with Sachsenhausen.===