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Aray Bridge, also known as Inveraray Bridge, is a stone two-arch public road bridge on the Inveraray Castle estate near Inveraray in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, carrying the A83 road over the mouth of the River Aray where it flows into Loch Fyne.

The present structure replaces a military bridge of 1758 designed by John Adam which was destroyed by floods in 1772. It was planned in 1773 by Robert Mylne for the Board of Ordnance and Colonel John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, on whose estate it stands. The contractor was J. Brown and it was completed in 1775/6.

It was placed at Category A (the highest) on Historic Scotland’s listed building designations in 1971. The Arrochar trunk road over the bridge now operates as a single carriageway controlled by traffic lights.

The bridge consists of two equal segmental arch spans of 65 ft (20 m) built of rubble with all faces of dressed masonry and partly balustraded parapets; the central spandrel is pierced and the pier is angular.

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The Ludwigsbrücke is a road bridge over the Isar in Munich, which consists of two consecutive bridge structures separated by the Museum Island. Both parts of the bridge are arch bridges made of reinforced concrete that are clad with natural stone.

The Ludwigsbrücke connects Munich city center with Haidhausen and the Au. Coming from the Isartor, Zweibrückenstraße leads to the first part of the bridge, the Inner Ludwigsbrücke, which crosses the Great Isar to the Museum Island, on which the Deutsches Museum stands. The second bridge structure, the Äußere Ludwigsbrücke, leads from there over the Kleine Isar to Rosenheimer Strasse, from which the Inner Wiener Strasse branches off after a few meters at the Gasteig.

The Ludwigsbrücke is at a historically important place: This is where the Isarbrücke stood, with which Heinrich the lion redirected the salt trade from the Isarbrücke near Oberföhring to his sovereign territory in 1158. However, it is not clear whether this bridge was built at this time, which is often equated with the founding of the city of Munich, or whether goods traffic across the Isar initially led through a ford, since the Augsburger Schied of 1158 does not yet mention an Isar bridge near Munich , but only in 1180 in the Regensburg dispute. After the Föhringer Bridge was destroyed by Heinrich the Lion, the bridge near Munich remained the only navigable Isar bridge between Bad Tölz and Freising for a long time.

The original bridge was a simple, continuous, wooden pier or yoke bridge over the river, which did not then have the later formed island. Over the centuries that followed, the bridge was repeatedly damaged or destroyed by flooding and had to be rebuilt. A standardized construction with fixed dimensions for pillars and beams was therefore introduced, which gave the bridge the same appearance over the centuries. By the 15th century at the latest, the bridge had a small gatehouse with a guard, as can be seen in the 1493 view. After the bridge had to be renewed again in 1501, the Red Tower was built between 1517 and 1519 as a defense system towering over the bridge.

In 1705 the Isar had formed a gravel island, today’s Museum Island, so that the Great Isar ran to the west of the island and to the east of the island was the Small Isar and the Auer Mühlbach, which was still open there at the time. Between 1723 and 1725 part of the wooden bridge was replaced by an outer bridge over the Kleine Isar and the Auer Mühlbach. The pillars were made of stone, but the superstructure was again made of wood. The outer bridge over the Isar was only “vaulted” in 1759-1764 under the chief master builder Ignaz Anton Gunetzrhainer, i. H. built on the existing pillars as a stone arch bridge. After Gunetzrhainer’s death in 1764, the inner Isar bridge with three stone arches was rebuilt according to his plans in 1767-1772. The part of the bridge over the Auer Mühlbach was also called the Schwanenbrücke or Schleifferbrücke.

During fighting between Austrian and French troops, the Red Tower was set on fire on September 8, 1796 and largely destroyed, so that it later had to be demolished. Only the side buildings remained, which were used by the coppersmith Feßler and the tower inn, which existed until 1890.

On September 13, 1813, the part of the bridge leading over the Kleine Isar collapsed during a strong flood because the stone pillars erected in 1725 had been washed away. About 100 people died in the process. At first only a wooden emergency bridge was built. The then general director of the Bavarian road and hydraulic engineering von Wiebeking presented plans for a wooden, a stone and an iron bridge and King Maximilian I decided in favor of the stone one. When construction had already begun, concerns were raised about the intended span widths of around 30 m. New plans were submitted, e.g. by Georg von Reichenbach for a cast-iron tubular bridge, by his rival Joseph von Baader for a wrought-iron bridge and by the city building officer Carl Probst for a stone bridge. In October 1823, work began on the construction of the outer bridge based on Probst’s design with the architectural design additions made by Leo von Klenze. At that time, the Auer Mühlbach had already been built over by the Rosenheimer Straße, but the bed of the Kleine Isar was a little wider than it is today. The bridge, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1828, was named Ludwigsbrücke in honor of the then King Ludwig I. The bridge now rested on a strong oak sill covered with planks. The bases of the pillars and abutments as well as the area of the walkways consisted of red sandstone that had been quarried in Neubeuern am Inn. The Nagelfluh came from Garmisch and Schäftlarn, from which the abutments consisted from the base to the arches. The piers themselves, the frontal arches, the main cornice and the railings were made of greenish-grey sandstone brought from Kelheim. The roadway was paved with boulders made of gneiss that had been picked up near Wangen in the Allgäu and near Neufahrn between Starnberg and Schäftlarn. The decoration between the breast railings was created in the royal iron foundry of Bodenwöhr.

In 1877, the inner bridge was widened by adding a cast iron construction.

In 1891-1892 the inner Ludwigsbrücke was replaced by a wider new building with three concrete arches and the outer bridge with four widened concrete arches

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The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne between Gateshead arts quarter on the south bank and Newcastle upon Tyne’s Quayside area on the north bank. It was the first tilting bridge ever to be constructed. Opened for public use in 2001, the award-winning structure was conceived and designed by architectural practice WilkinsonEyre and structural engineering firm Gifford. The bridge is sometimes called the ‘Blinking Eye Bridge’ or the ‘Winking Eye Bridge’ due to its shape and its tilting method. The Millennium Bridge stands as the twentieth tallest structure in the city, and is shorter in stature than the neighbouring Tyne Bridge.

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Inveraray Castle (pronounced /ˌɪnvəˈrɛərə/ IN-vər-AIR-ə or /ˌɪnvəˈrɛəri/ IN-vər-AIR-ee; Scottish Gaelic Caisteal Inbhir Aora [ˈkʰaʃtʲəl̪ˠ iɲɪɾʲˈɯːɾə]) is a country house near Inveraray in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland, on the shore of Loch Fyne, Scotland’s longest sea loch. It is one of the earliest examples of Gothic Revival architecture.

It has been the seat of the Dukes of Argyll, chiefs of Clan Campbell, since the 18th century.

James V stayed at the old castle of Inveraray in September 1533. A new lute was bought for him in Glasgow and carried to Inveraray by his servant Troilus.

The present castle was built in the Gothic Revival style. Improvements on the estate began in 1743 by Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay, soon to become 3rd Duke of Argyll. The foundation stone of the new castle was laid in October 1746, and it replaced an earlier 15th-century castle.

It is one of the earliest Gothic Revival buildings, together with Strawberry Hill House. It was built of ashlar lapis ollaris. Originally, all the roofs were flat and crenellated. Later, a third floor with pitched roof and dormer windows was added on all four wings, and steep conical roofs were added to the four round towers. In the 1770s, the village of Inveraray was demolished and rebuilt a short distance away, to give the castle a more secluded setting.

Designers who worked on the new castle include William Adam and Roger Morris. The interior has a number of neoclassical rooms created later in the 18th century for the 5th Duke by Robert Mylne. These are among the rooms open to the public. James Lees-Milne was not impressed by the house when he visited it in 1943, noting the “ugly” grey stone and calling it “grim and forbidding”.

In 1975, a devastating fire struck Inveraray and for some time the 12th Duke and his family lived in the castle’s basement, while restorations were carried out, funded by a worldwide fundraising drive.

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Wylam Railway Bridge (officially West Wylam Bridge, also known as Hagg Bank Bridge and locally as Points Bridge and Half-Moon Bridge) is a footbridge and former railway bridge crossing the River Tyne at Hagg Bank, approximately 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) west of Wylam in Northumberland, England.

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The Skye Bridge (Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid an Eilein Sgitheanaich) is a road bridge over Loch Alsh, Scotland, connecting the Isle of Skye to the island of Eilean Bàn. The name is also used for the whole Skye Crossing, which further connects Eilean Bàn to the mainland across the Carrich Viaduct. The crossing forms part of the A87.

Traditionally, the usual route from the mainland to Skye was the shortest crossing, with a length of around 500 metres (1,640 ft), across the sound between the villages of Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland and Kyleakin on the island’s east coast. A ferry service operated from around 1600, run by private operators and latterly by Caledonian MacBrayne.

The bridge cost £27 million to build.

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The Ponte Santa Trìnita (Italian for Holy Trinity Bridge, named for the ancient church in the nearest stretch of via de’ Tornabuoni) is a Renaissance bridge in Florence, Italy, spanning the Arno. The Ponte Santa Trìnita is the oldest elliptic arch bridge in the world, characterised by three flattened ellipses. The outside spans each measure 29 m (95 ft) with the centre span being 32 m (105 ft) in length. The two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Vecchio, to the east, and the Ponte alla Carraia to the west.

The bridge was constructed by the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammannati from 1567 to 1569. Its site, downstream of the Ponte Vecchio, is a major link in the medieval street plan of Florence, which has been bridged at this site since the 13th century. The wooden bridge of 1252 was swept away in a flood seven years later and was rebuilt in stone; this structure was in turn destroyed by a flood in 1333. The bridge of five arches constructed by Taddeo Gaddi was also destroyed in the flood of 1557, which occasioned Ammannati’s replacement. Four ornamental statues of the Seasons were added to the bridge in 1608, as part of the wedding celebrations of Cosimo II de’ Medici with Maria Magdalena of Austria: Spring by Pietro Francavilla, Summer and Autumn by Giovanni Caccini, and Winter by Taddeo Landini.

On the night between 3 and 4 of August 1944, the bridge was destroyed by retreating German troops on the advance of the British 8th Army. A Bailey bridge was built for temporary use by the Royal engineers. The bridge was reconstructed in 1958 with original stones raised from the Arno or taken from the same quarry, under the direction of architect Riccardo Gizdulich and engineer Emilio Brizzi. The missing head of Primavera was recovered from the bed of the Arno in October 1961.

Object description
Type: Sculpture
Location: Ponte Santa Trìnita, Florence, Italy
Material: Marble
Artist: Giovanni Battista Caccini (1556-1613)
Date: 1608

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Belsay Hall is a Regency style country house located at Belsay, Northumberland. It is regarded as the first British country house to be built entirely in the new Greek Revival style. It is a Grade I listed building. It was built to supersede Belsay Castle and its adjoining earlier hall just a few hundred yards away, and is part of the same estate.

The house was built between 1810 and 1817 for Sir Charles Monck (then of Belsay Castle close by) to his own design, possibly assisted by architect John Dobson. It is built in ashlar with a Lakeland slate roof in the Greek Doric style. Monck modelled his design on the style of buildings he had seen during his two-year honeymoon in Greece, particularly the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.

The house measures 100 feet (30 m) square, with a lower kitchen wing attached to the north side. Externally the house appears to have two stories, although there is an additional storey hidden within the roof space to provide servant accommodation.

This service side of the house was badly affected by dry rot in the 1970s and, following remedial work, it was left as a weather-proof shell to illustrate how the house was built. The hall was the residence of the Middleton family until 1962.

The entire Belsay Hall house is unfurnished and maintained in a condition of benign decay, with only necessary structural maintenance undertaken. This allows it to be used as a setting for bespoke art installations each summer.

There are extensive gardens, formal and naturalistic, such as the linear Quarry Garden.[3] There is wheelchair access to the Quarry Garden, the ground floor of both the Hall and the Castle, and to the café. The gardens are also Grade I listed on the Historic England Park and Garden Register.

Belsay Hall is administered by English Heritage and is open to the public.

In 2023 English Heritage completed a two-year conservation project has included a new roof for the hall and substantial work on the gardens.

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The Bridge of Sighs (Italian and Venetian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge) and was built in 1600.

The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge’s name, given by Lord Byron as a translation from the Italian “Ponte dei sospiri” in the 19th century, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells. In reality, the days of inquisitions and summary executions were over by the time the bridge was built, and the cells under the palace roof were occupied mostly by small-time criminals. In addition, little could be seen from inside the bridge due to the stone grills covering the windows.

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