Quem acode à Ponte D. Maria Pia?

A D. Maria Pia é uma das 10 melhores pontes do Mundo

A escolha é do jornal inglês Guardian e relatada pelo Grande Porto.

Agora, infelizmente, fora de uso, a ponte portuense, em 1877 ajudou a catapultar Gustave Eiffel para a fama e a confiarem-lhe a construção de uma certa torre em Paris.

Notícia no THE GUARDIAN:

Maria Pia Bridge, Porto, Portugal

Completed 1877

This is a simple diagram of necessity – a railway line had to be brought across the river Douro and it was impossible to build piers on the river bed. So Gustave Eiffel devised an arch wider than any previously built, its structure widening where the forces are greater, with the dead-straight line of the tracks above. Sometimes untested techniques were used to keep it light and to solve the problem of keeping it up during construction, before the arch was complete. Yet this work of pure engineering also succeeds in being an emblem of its city, something Eiffel would achieve later with a tower in Paris.