Indiano Bridge (Ponte all'Indiano in Italian) is the first
earth-anchored cable-stayed bridge in the world. It is a bridge across the
Arno
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.
Source and route
The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a s ...
River in
Florence
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Italy
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Indian Monument of
Rajaram II
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The bridge was built between 1972 and 1978 by Società C.M.F. S.p.A. with architectural and urban architects Adriano Montemagni and Paolo Sica, and structural design engineer Fabrizio de Miranda
Fabrizio de Miranda (30 October 1926 – 21 January 2015) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
Career
He graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1950 from the University of Naples. Beginning in 19 ...
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The project won the national competition organized by the Municipality of Florence in 1968, and immediately attracted attention because it involved a pedestrian bridge hanging below. For the structural characteristics Fabrizio de Miranda in 1978 received the European award-CECM ECCS (European Convention for Construction Metallica). In fact it is the first cable-stayed bridge of large span anchored to the ground made the world and is one of the largest cable-stayed bridges in Italy of the twentieth century.
Key facts
*Owner: ''Comune di Firenze'' (Italy)
*Contractor: C.M.F. Spa - Guasticce (Livorno - Italy)
*Structural design: Prof. Dr. ing. Fabrizio de Miranda (Milan
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*Span: 189 m (620 feet).
*Type of bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
: highway, earth anchored cable-stayed bridge with central towers and a steel stiffened plate girder composed of 2 trapezoidal box-girders connected by a cross-beams and horizontal bracings.
Gallery
File:Ponte all'Indiano 454.JPG, On the bridge
File:Ponte all'Indiano - Footbridge - overview.jpg, bridge
File:Ponte all'Indiano - Footbridge.jpg, bridge
Image:Ponte all'Indiano 3.JPG, bridge
Image:Ponte all'Indiano 4.JPG, Monument to Indian prince
File:Ponte all'Indiano 2.JPG, bridge
References
*Fabrizio De Miranda, Ponti a struttura d'acciaio, vol. VII, Collana Italsider, Genova 1971, pp. 301–304.
*Fabrizio De Miranda, Il ponte strallato sull'Arno a Firenze in località l'Indiano, in "Costruzioni Metalliche" n. 6/1978.
*Santini P.C., Il ponte dell'indiano a Firenze, "Ottagono", n. 52/1979.
*Fabrizio De Miranda, I ponti strallati di grande luce, fondamenti teorici, analisi strutturale, criteri di progettazione, tecniche di costruzione, 5 esempi di realizzazioni, Ed. Cremonese, Roma 1980 (Zanichelli BO), pp. 246–258.
*Gobbi G., Itinerari di Firenze moderna, Firenze 1987.
*Sica P., Scritti e progetti per Firenze: 1963-1988, Venezia 1989.
*AA.VV., Firenze. Guida di architettura, Torino 1992.
*Andreini L., Ponte all'Indiano a Firenze, in "Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica", 117, pp. 127–134,Roma 2005.
External links
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flickr photos
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Bridges completed in 1977
Cable-stayed bridges in Italy
Bridges in Florence