María Pía Bridge over the Douro river at Porto. Until 1991, year of its closing, the unique union of the portuguese railways to north and south of the named river. Designed from Gustav Eiffel and Seraing, was built between 1875 and 1877. Northern railway from Lisboa, that reach the southern margin of the river at Gaia in 1865, must to wait twelwe years until was found a technical solution for crossing the river to the northern margin, until the Campanhá Station. The bridge received the name of the Queen María Pía of Saboya, wife of the king Louis I, in which reing was built the bridge, and that gives his name to the another metallic bridge of this city (open in 1886), for the road and trams transit, and today integrated in the metropolitan railway of Porto.
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06/09/2011.
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Photo: Manuel Marcos.
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