Viaduc du Viou: construction

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Viaduct near the town of Forcalquier is built in 1882-1887. Length 136 m, width of the bridge deck 11 m, seven 13-foot arches. From 1890 on it allowed the local w / d, in 1934 this branch w / a closed path in 1945 dismantled. Since 1960 - to operate as a car most.Upotreblyayutsya name "Viaduc de Forcalquier" and "Viaduc des Latins", is notorious as the "suicide bridge" (there's even a corresponding memorial plaque