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Vasco da gama bridge beauty, elegance and rhythm By Teresa Almeida 

In this photo story she shows pictures of the Vasco Da Gama Bridge that is located in the Tagus River, is the second north-.south connection from Lisbon to Spain. Originally Lisbon was an abandoned area, full of garbage and dumped stuff, but it was transformed into a quality area: “decontaminating 330 hectares of land and cleaning up 5 kilometers of river front took four years”. 

Der Eiserner Steg The iron footbridge By Barbara Chap It’s located in Frankfurt, Germany. It crosses the MainRiver that goes 524km from east to west. This bridge was built because the city was growing up very fast and so the traffic, so it was necessary another way to cross the river. This 175m long bridge is elegant and beautiful, that looks like a suspension bridge but actually is a truss bridge, a lighter but stronger construction with gothic arches all across it, and towers made with cast iron, also done with gothic influence