Pont des Invalides

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Pont des Invalides (Fr. Pont des Invalides.) - arched bridge over the Seine in Paris, is situated between Pont de l'Alma and Alexander III near the Houses Invalidov.Istoriya bridge begins in 1820. French engineer Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier proposed in 1821 a draft of a suspension bridge. In the years 1824-1826 the bridge was under construction, but it was not completed. In 1829 it was opened a new bridge with two pillars and three porticoes. But due to wear in 1850 access to the bridge was restricted. In 1854 the building was demolished and construction began on a modern bridge, completed in the year to the World's Fair, held in 1855 in Parizhe.Postroenny bridge is a bridge chetyroharochny (two arches of 34 m and two 36 m). bridge length - 152 m, the height above the water - 18 m (the lowest bridge over Seine within Paris). Carriageway width - 14 m, two sidewalks of 2 m From the moment you enter the bridge was reconstructed several times in the operation..