St.Petersburg sightseeing: Egyptian Bridge
Today I continue the places of intrest at St.Petersburg' theme: what is worth seeing and where to go during your visit to our city.
Egyptian Bridge at St.Petersburg / Египетский Мост
Эти 4 сфинкса украшают Египетский мост через Фонтанку в Санкт-Петербурга (мост соединяет Покровский и Безымянный острова). Мост был построен в 1825-26 годах. Все египетское было тогда в моде, что и нашло отражение в дизайне моста. Металлические конструкции и сфинксы были отлиты на заводе Берда. Моста был цепным, висячим, однопролётным. 20 января 1905 года по мосту проходил эскадрон гвардейской кавалерии, навстречу ему двигались 11 саней с извозчиками -- мост не выдержал общего веса и рухнул (погибли три лошади). Мост был восстановлен но теперь стал уже не висячим.
Those sphinxes decorate the Egyptian bridge over the Fontanka River at St.Petersburg (the bridge connects the Pokrovsky and Bezymyanny islands). The bridge was built in year 1826. Everything Egyptian was in peak fashion by the time, and design of the bridge reflected it. Metal structures and sphinxes were cast at Byrd's factory. The bridge was chain, hanging, single-span. On January 20, 1905, a squadron of guards cavalry was passing over the bridge, and 11 sledges with cabmen moved towards it; the chain bridge could not bear the total weight and collapsed (three horses died in this accident). Later it was rebuilt, but lost his original historical outlook: it is no longer a chain and hanging type of a bridge.
| location: | Russian countryside | date: june 2020 | --- |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5D | Canon 70-300mm | natural lighting |
| f 5 | t 1/320 | ISO 100 | raw-conv |
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I most say I never seen or heard of that bridge. Thanks @qwerrie for the info about it.
thats no surprise -- I assume you never travelled to St.Petersburg? same with me: I never heard of ANY bridges at Venezuela... (but I've read a book about Simon Bolivar, hehe). blessing! @darvyrivero