When people talk about St. Petersburg, they first of all remember its beautiful and majestic bridges, many of which are raised at night for the passage of large ships. In general, Peter is really a real city of bridges. Indeed, it is in the city on the Neva that the widest bridge in the world, the Blue Bridge, is located, the width of which is 97.3 meters.
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Step 1
There are 342 bridges and bridges in St. Petersburg. Of these, 24 are completely and completely pedestrian bridges and 297 transport bridges. And the longest bridge in St. Petersburg is the Alexander Nevsky Bridge. Its length is 905 meters.
It is not for nothing that St. Petersburg is called the "Open-Air Museum of Bridges". It is the bridges that are one of the main attractions of the city on the Neva. Under Peter the Great, all bridges in St. Petersburg were drawbridges. True, they were built exclusively from wood. And then they began to be replaced with stone bridges, as the most reliable. Stone supports, openwork gratings, beautiful cast-iron arches appeared at the bridges of St. Petersburg. Over time, the vast majority of bridges ceased to be drawbridge, only 21 bridges remained, which are drawn at night.
Step 2
It is the opening of bridges at night that is the most romantic and exciting event. Many tourists specially come to the city on the Neva to see how the bridges are being raised.
First of all, the schedule for the opening of bridges in St. Petersburg is interesting. The Alexander Nevsky Bridge is divorced from 2:20 am to 5:10 am, the Exchange Bridge - from 2.00 to 4:55 am, the Blagoveshchensky Bridge - from 1:25 to 2:45 am and from 3:10 to 5:00 am. You cannot cross the Bolsheokhotinsky bridge and walk from 2:00 to 5:00 in the morning, through Volodarsky - from 2:00 to 3:45 in the morning and from 4:15 to 5:45 in the morning, through Liteiny - from 1:40 to 4: 45 in the morning, through Troitsky - from 1:35 to 4:50 in the morning. Tuchkov Bridge is open from 2:00 am to 2:55 am and from 3:35 am to 4:55 am, and Finland Bridge is from 2:00 am to 5:30 am.
Step 3
Throughout the night, without any interruptions, only one bridge was raised - the Palace Bridge. It is the image of this raised bridge against the background of the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress that is one of the main symbols of St. Petersburg. Its unique swing mechanism lifts up spans, each weighing 700 tonnes.
