Vasco da Gama Bridge (in a foggy day)

The Vasco da Gama Bridge enables north-south traffic to bypass Lisbon. It was inaugurated on the 4th of April 1998 and is the longest bridge in Europe with its 17,2 Km (10.7 mi), 10 Km (6.2 mi) of which over the Tagus River. It got its name on the year of 500th anniversary of the discovery (by Vasco da Gama) of the sea route from Europe to India. The bridge was designed to hold up to an earthquake 4.5 times stronger than the 1755 Lisbon earthquake (estimated at 8.7 on the Richter scale) that devastated Lisbon.



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