Construction Magazine August 2014 | Page 49

Maria Pia Bridge , Porto , Portugal
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Maria Pia Bridge , Porto , Portugal

Built to solve a technical problem , a railway line between Lisbon and Porto needed to cross the fastflowing , flood-liable river Douro . Gustave Eiffel , ( more famous for another project ), undercut rival bidders by a third with a two-crescent arch which was at the time the longest single-arch span in the world .
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