What is so famous for all of us knownSt. Petersburg? Of course, unsurpassed bridges. Surprisingly, it is decorated with more than eight hundred bridges, each of which is absolutely unique and unsurpassed. But most draw attention of tourists drawbridges. How wonderful to see this unrivaled spectacle during a white night in St. Petersburg. I assure you, this event will be remembered for life.
From the very beginning, all the bridges in the city were built witha movable mechanism. These were fairly simple designs, at first - wooden, after being strengthened, laid with a stone, with iron arches and refined bars. In our time there were only 21 drawbridges, each of which is worth seeing, and the most popular ones are Liteiny, Troitsky and Dvortsovy. following:
, begins from the last days of April and until the beginning of November, while the days are still warm.
The construction of the Foundry Bridge was completed in 1879. The name of this bridge came from the Cannon Foundry. It is bred using powerful upgraded lifts in just a couple of minutes. It was on this bridge that for the first time lanterns, working automatically, were installed from electricity. The cast-iron lattices of the bridge bear the image of mermaids holding the coat of arms of St. Petersburg. You can see it in the heart of the city - on Liteiny Prospekt.
The bridging of bridges in St. Petersburg is prohibited if the wind speed exceeds 15 m per second or on the street there is a heat of more than 25◦ C. In the rest of the time, you can observe such a mesmerizing picture.
The longest of the bridges, standing on the Neva,is considered the Trinity Bridge, formerly called Kirovsky. Its length is 580 m. It lies between Suvorov and Trinity squares. We finished building it in 1903, and spent 6 years building it. Sponsored all this by the French company "Batignol", and the reconstruction of the bridge involved engineers from Russia. The bridge was built in honor of the bicentennial of St. Petersburg, the ceremony of its discovery was observed by Nicholas II himself. The bridge was created with metal, with a beautiful openwork design of 5 arches. After the reconstruction in 2002, the designer part of the bridge was restored, painted and modernized, the granite facing was replaced, and the image of the crown and two-headed eagles was returned.
Through the Neva River and the Palace Bridge, consistingfrom 5 cast-iron spans. In length it is more than two hundred and sixty meters and a little more than 27 meters wide. It was started in the time of the First World War and finished in 1916. Then the bridge succumbed to constant improvement. Now you can observe the beautiful architectural solution of this building.
