Millau Viaduct Bridge Map
MILLAU VIADUCT BRIDGE MAP Crossing Tarn Valley, Millau, France Designer/Engineer Foster + Partners Completed 2004 Span 1,148 feet (350 meters) Materials Steel, concrete Type Cable-stayed A span so high that …
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Ponte Vecchio Bridge Map
PONTE VECCHIO BRIDGE MAP Crossing Arno River, Florence, Italy Designer Taddeo Gaddi Completed 1345 Length 330 feet (100 meters) Material Masonry Type Arch This picturesque Florentine landmark is an inhabited …
Lusitania Bridge Map
LUSITANIA BRIDGE MAP Crossing Guadiana River, Merida, Spain Designer/Engineer Santiago Calatrava Completed 1991 Span 620 feet (189 meters) Materials Steel, concrete Type Arch and box girder The arch and its …
Vitols Museum
VITOLS MUSEUM Just as Liszt was accorded a grace and favour home in the Budapest Music Academy for his contribution to Hungarian music, so was Jazeps Vltols, for his to …
Pont Du Gard Bridge Map
PONT DU GARD BRIDGE MAP The Pont du Gard stands as testimony to the Roman genius for hydraulic engineeringand construction management. Although the Romans were not the first to build …
Smetana Museum
SMETANA MUSEUM The central position occupied by the Smetana museum in Prague powerfully symbolizes the place that Bedrich Smetana holds in Czech music: it occupies the former Old Town Water …
Covered Bridge Maps
COVERED BRIDGE MAPS It is little wonder that covered bridges have been called “kissing bridges” and “tunnels of love.” Set in bucolic landscapes, often off the beaten path, they have …
Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge Map
BOB GRAHAM SUNSHINE SKYWAY BRIDGE MAP To celebrate the Sunshine State, the stays are painted a brilliant yellow. From a distance, the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge looks like a …
Slavenski Museum
SLAVENSKI MUSEUM Josip Slavenski was one of the most adventurous composers of early 20th-century Yugoslavia. He was born with the name Stolzer’, in 1896, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but later, …
Pont D’Avignon Bridge Map
All that remains of this key medieval crossing are four arches and a famous folk song. Legend has it that in 1178 a total eclipse of the sun occurred at …
0Resund Bridge Map
0RESUND BRIDGE MAP An ambitious civil engineering project also helped save the European green toad. Rising sea levels at the end of the Ice Age severed the dry-land connection between …
Szymanowski Museum
SZYMANOWSKI MUSEUM Karol Szymanowski was of course Polish, but he was born in 1882 in what is now Ukraine, in the village of Tymoshovka; his family were among the Polish …
Anji Bridge Map
ANJI BRIDGE MAP Four hours southwest of Beijing, where the Xiao River flows over the North China Plain, stands the remarkable Anji Bridge. Designed by the master stonemason Li Chun …
Tsing Ma Bridge Map
TSING MA BRIDGE MAP A spectacular fireworks display celebrated the opening of Hong Kong’s Tsing Ma Bridge on April 27, 1997. Pedestrians were invited to walk over the bridge, as …
Ullmann Museum
ULLMANN MUSEUM Viktor Ullmann was the senior figure among the Jewish Czech composers imprisoned in the Nazi transit camp at Terezm. He entered the camp in 1942, spent two years …