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O’Connel Street is the main street in Dublin. It is named after Daniel O’Connell (b. 1775 – d 1847), who is known as “the Liberator” for his work in liberating the Roman Catholics in Ireland. At the end of O’Connell St., near the O’Connell St Bridge, is a monument to O’Connell. Today O’Connell St is one of the busiest streets in Dublin, Ireland. The O’Connell Bridge in central Dublin, which spans the River Liffey just north of Trinity College, was designed and built by James Gandon around 1794. It was originally named after the then Viceroy, Lord Carlisle. After the unveiling of a statue in his honour, the bridge was renamed after Daniel O’Connell, first catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin, in approximately 1882.

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The Oberbaum bridge is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin’s River Spree, considered one of the city landmarks. It link Friendrichshain and Kreuzberg, former city districts that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.
It was neglected for a long time when Germany was divided because the division of East and West went right through the middle of the bridge, which means that it wasn’t used and nobody really took care of it. Now it’s a very vital structure connecting Kreuzberg and Frierichshain. There’s even a U-Bahn train traveling over it.

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Great cities have great bridges. New York has the Brooklyn Bridge; Venice is a city of beautiful pontes crowned by the Bridge of Sighs. Think San Francisco and you think of the Golden Gate. In Philadelphia, our great span is named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.Plans to construct a bridge between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey on the other side of the Delaware river were made as early as 1818.
The bridge was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, the architect who was also in large part responsible for Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Driving over the bridge and passing under its two tall towers connected by tapering cables, puts one in mind of Dorothy entering into Kingdom of Oz — there is a fearful exhilaration. This bridge does not merely span the Delaware — it soars over the river. Painted a resonant blue, at some points the bridge seems to merge with the sky.
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Shaoxing is world famous for the gorgeous scenes along its waters. The rivers, big and small, span 1,900 kilometers, running vertical and horizontal – just like streets in northern China – with various stone bridges as their crossroads. Shaoxing boasts 229 ancient bridges in various forms, which form a site rich in man-made landscape and wins the city the title of Hometown of Bridges.

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Every city should have a great piece of symbolic architecture – In Paris it’s the Eiffel Tower; in New York – the Empire State Building; in Rotterdam it’s the Erasmus bridge. The Erasmus Bridge is a cable stayed bridge across the Nieuwe Maas river. The Bridge was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The 808 metre long bridge has a 139 metre-high asymmetrical pylon, earning the bridge its nickname of “The Swan” by locals because of its graceful posture over the water. The southern span of the bridge has a 89 metre long bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in West Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world. The bridge was officially opened by Queen Beatrix on 6.09. 1996, having cost about 75 million Euros to construct. Shortly after the bridge opened to traffic in October 1996, it was discovered the bridge would swing under particularly strong wind conditions. To reduce the trembling, stronger shock dampeners were installed.

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