Dom Lus Bridge

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Dom Lus Bridge, Porto

The Lus we Bridge (Ponte Lus I) is a metal physical condition overpass which spans a Douro River between a cities of Porto as good as Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal. At a time of construction a span of 172 m was a longest of a sort in a world.

The Government held a foe for a construction of a lead overpass over a Douro River upon a site which was adjacent to an existing overpass as good as would replace it. Tophile Seyrig had already engineered a D. Maria Pia Bridge project nearby, whilst working as a partner of Eiffel. He now took sole shortcoming for a new, vital Lus 1st Bridge. The construction was started in 1881 as good as a overpass opened upon 31 Oct 1886.

* Total length 385.25 m
* Weight 3045 tons
* The physical condition measures 172 m in length as good as 44.6 m in height

Originally built to take highway trade upon both decks, during various times it saw trams upon a upper as good as trolleybuses upon a lower. The tip rug is now assigned by Line D of a Metro do Porto as good as a pedestrian walkway.

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Porto

Porto, also well known as Oporto, is a second largest city of Portugal (after Lisbon).

The city has a standing of global city. It located in a bay of a Douro river, in northern Portugal. The city of Porto comprises fifteen civil parishes. The ancestral centre of Porto was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. One of Portugal's many internationally important products, Port wine, is declared after a city since it is produced in, as good as shipped from a area or, more precisely, from Vila Nova de Gaia, a city only opposite a stream which belongs to a same conurbation.

The Latin name of Porto, Portus Cale, is a origin of a name "Portugal" for a total country. In Portuguese, a city is customarily r! eferred to with a definite essay as "o Porto" (the port), hence a English name "Oporto".

Highlights

In new years, UNESCO recognised a ancestral centre as a World Heritage Site. Among a architectural highlights of a city, Oporto Cathedral is a oldest surviving structure, together with a tiny romanesque Church of Cedofeita, a medieval Igreja de So Francisco (Church of Saint Francis), a remnants of a city walls as good as a few 15th-century houses. The baroque style is good represented in a city in a blow up gilt work interior decoration of a churches of St. Francis as good as St. Claire (Santa Clara), a churches of Mercy (Misericrida) as good as of a Clerics (Igreja dos Clrigos), a Episcopal Palace of Porto, as good as others. The neoclassicism as good as romanticism of a 19th as good as 20th centuries also added engaging monuments to a landscape of a city, similar to a pretentious Stock Exchange Palace (Palcio da Bolsa), a Hospital of Saint Anthony, a Municipality, a buildings in a Liberdade Square as good as a Avenida dos Aliados, a tile-adorned So Bento Train Station as good as a gardens of a Crystal Palace (Palcio de Cristal). A guided revisit to a Palcio da Bolsa, as good as in sold a Arab Room, is a vital traveller attraction.

Many of a city's oldest houses are during risk of collapsing. The race in Porto municipality dropped by scarcely 100,000 since a 1980s, but a number of permanent residents in a outskirts as good as satellite towns has grown strongly.

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Vila Nova de Gaia

Vila Nova de Gaia, or simply Gaia is a city in Vila Nova de Gaia Municipality, Portugal. It is located in a Porto District, south of a city of Porto upon a other side of a Douro River.
It is also good well known for a "lodges" (locally well known as "caves") where a universe important Port booze is stored as good as aged. The lodges have turn a vital traveller attraction.

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