Ponte della Libertà
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The Ponte della Libertà ("Bridge of Freedom"), also called Ponte Nuovo , acts as a road bridge connecting the city center of Venice with the districts of Mestre and Marghera on the mainland . The PonteVecchio , the railway bridge, runs parallel .
Officially, the name Ponte della Libertà only bears the road bridge, but it is also used for the structurally separate older railway bridge.
Road bridge
The Ponte della Libertà was designed in 1931 by the architect Eugenio Miozzi and opened to traffic on April 25, 1933 by Benito Mussolini under the name of Ponte Littorio ( Liktoren Bridge) . It is 3,850 m long, 22 m wide and the only access road for motor vehicles to Venice. It was almost the whole length alongside the older railway bridge traced out . After the Second World War , the bridge was given its current name "Freedom Bridge" in memory of the liberation from fascism . Since 2010 the bridge has also been used by the Venice tram , on which ACTV's T1 line runs.
Railway bridge
The older railway bridge was opened in 1846 and connects the two main Venetian train stations Mestre (mainland) and Santa Lucia (island train station). It carries all the routes that lead to Venice:
Today the bridge has four tracks.
On October 8, 1920, an express train leaving Venice for Milan and an express train coming from Trieste collided on the bridge after a signal was set incorrectly. 25 people died and 20 were injured.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 60.
Coordinates: 45 ° 27 '10.9 " N , 12 ° 17' 58.5" E