Pont du Garigliano

The Pont of Garigliano is a Pont spanning the the Seine with Paris.

Situation

The Pont of Garigliano connects the Boulevard Martial-Valin in the Quartier of Javel (15 {{E}} district), with the Boulevard Exelmans in the district of Auteuil (16 {{E}} district).

It is very close to the buildings of France Television, and to the European Hôpital Georges-Pompidou.

It crosses the the Seine, carried by only two piles, close to banks. It spans bank roads on two banks before being connected to the dry land.

Public transport

  • Stations of tram: Bridge of Garigliano (line 3)
  • Stations of subway: Exelmans (line 9) and Balard (line 8)
  • Station of the RER: Victor Boulevard - Bridge of Garigliano (line C)
  • drunk Stops of : lines PC1, 22, 42, 72, 88 and 169.

History

From 1863 to 1962, on this site the viaduct of Auteuil, also called was viaduct of the Point-of-Day, in masonry. This one comprised two stages, one (the level top) for the trains (small belt), the other for circulation.

Motor vehicle traffic increasing on the Boulevards of the Marshals, and the arches being too low for the river navigation led to its replacement as from 1963 by the Davy architect and engineer Thenault; it was inaugurated on September 1st, 1966.

It draws its name from the victory gained in Italy by the general June, in 1944.

Since end 2006, work the Telephone is installed in the center on its face air-side, is established on the edge external of sound Trottoir and is fastened with its Garde-fou. It is about a Phone box carved in the shape of flower by the Architecte Frank Gehry, not having an other function only to receive calls of Sophie Calle, the artist who imagined it to accompany the startup by the Tramway of the Marshals, to which the terminus is very close.

Technique

Welded metallic bridge with six beams, including/understanding three spans of 58  m, 93  m and 58  Mr.

It is the most bridge of Paris, with 11 meters above the level the Seine (what makes of it also a place of Suicide S, like that of Boris Fraenkel).

See too

Related article

External bonds

  • Bridge of Garigliano, on the site of the Town of Paris

  • official Nomenclature, on the site of the Town of Paris
  • Photographs
  • Bridge of Garigliano on Structurae: dates, technique, bibliography

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