Friday, March 11, 2011

Sea Doo Challenger 180 - 2009

the bridge of the Renaissance

hundred years ago, as today is the sesquicentennial, we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the national state. will be that the state still had the original form of monarchy, will be the rhetoric of the last century, but the celebrations were also a materialization in urban works and which are still enduring.
already I mentioned the arrangement of Valle Giulia, and do trait d'union of the district with the new model was built on the right bank of the Tiber, and then it would be called of victory after 1918, and more generally victories to date, was thrown a bridge that, besides being beautiful, was the application of a new construction system that only just looked on the European landscape construction: concrete.
the bridge has a span of only a hundred meters of rope was designed by and implemented by the Hennebique Porqueddu, as stated in the plaque on the bridge itself. the elegance of the line of the arch, the new clean design, the simplicity of the decoration, make it still a masterpiece unsurpassed, which remade the next to the Ponte Duca d'Aosta , made almost three decades later as part of arrangement of the Foro Italico.
closed for a consolidation in the seventies, diverted the tramline over it, was further restored in the following years, and still performs a vital task for the entire north face of the historical center of Rome.
this year but there will be only lamentations Po.
we went back a hundred years.

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