Today’s Photohunter theme is “bridge”.
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The Puente Isabel in Sevilla, designed by Eiffel.
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07 Saturday Feb 2009
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A lovely bridge with classic lines… I like the circles used instead of struts above the arches.
I am a bit early, given that it is only 6:30 on Friday evening.
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A very unusual design. Thank you for sharing it.
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That’s a beautiful bridge!
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Very good shot, nice backdrop too. Here’s mine http://www.mirasblog.com/2009/02/photo-hunt-6-bridge.html
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ahh sevilla, love the bridge
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The number of times I’ve walked across that bridge and never once realised it was designd by Eiffel.
Perhaps if we hadn’t been using a French guidebook last time…
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This bridge is beautiful! The efect of the circels are great!
Have a nice evening 🙂
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I’m sure I must have told you that, Blues. Probably on your first visit here, before this happened and the brain cells containing that information were massacred.
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Such a beautifully made bridge! Great photo! 🙂
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That is a beautiful bridge. I love the circles, too.
It makes me curious about what other things Eiffel designed.
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A bio of Eiffel..
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/gustave_eiffel.html
He designed the Statue of Liberty… The West Station in Pest, Hungary; the Ponte Maria Pia, Portugal; La Ruche in Paris; the Nice Observatory… ummm Nice; Eiffel Market (aka Mercado Adolpho Lisboa), Lisbon; San Sebastian Church, Manila, Philippines; The General Post Office, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; The Market, Dijon, France; Paradis Latin, Paris; La Paz Train Station, La Paz, Bolivia…..
“Equally outstanding are certain other structures in which the pure inventiveness of Eiffel’s company was allowed free rein, such as the “portable” bridges sold around the world in “kits”, the ingenious structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York, and of course the Eiffel Tower itself.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel
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I kind of messed that up… the quote was from the link at the top while the list of structures was from the Wikipedia link..
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