Key facts
- Carries
- Six road lanes of IP 7 A 2 , Two railway tracks of Linha do Sul
- Crosses
- Tagus River
- Locale
- Lisbon (right/North bank), Pragal (left/South bank)
- Official name
- Ponte 25 de Abril
- Other name s
- Ponte Salazar (before 1974), Tagus River Bridge
- Named for
- Carnation Revolution
- Maintained by
- Lusoponte
- Design
- Suspension
- Total length
- 3,173 metres (10,410 ft)
- Width
- 24.5 metres (80 ft)
- Height
- 180 metres (590 ft)
- Longest span
- 1,012.9 m (3,323 ft)
- Clearance below
- 70 m (230 ft) at mean high water
- Constructed by
- American Bridge Company
- Opened
- 6 August 1966
- Daily traffic
- 150,000 cars, 157 trains
- Toll
- 2.15 € (northbound only)
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Carnation Revolution
- Official name
- Ponte Salazar
- Country
- Portugal
- Material used
- reinforced concrete
- Image
- Ponte25Abril1.jpg
- Height
- 190.47
- Length
- 2277.64
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- Ponte 25 de Abril
- longest span
- 1012.8
- date of official opening
- 1966-08-06
- clearance
- 70
- inception
- 1966-08-06
- next crossing upstream
- Vasco da Gama Bridge
- carries thoroughfare
- European route E90
- fee
- 1.85
- number of spans
- 3
- color
- international orange
- native label
- Ponte 25 de Abril
- speed limit
- 70
- structural engineer
- David B. Steinman
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Encyclopedic overview
The 25 de Abril Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte 25 de Abril, 25th of April Bridge, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpõtɨ ˈvĩtɨ (i) ˈsĩku dɨ ɐˈbɾil]) is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, with the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tagus River. It has a main span length of 1,013 metres (3,323 ft; 1.013 km), making it the 48th longest suspension bridge in the world.
At the time of its inauguration in 1966, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar), after the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, who ordered its construction. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which overthrew the remnants of Salazar's Estado Novo regime, the bridge was renamed for April 25, the date of the revolution. It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge (in Portuguese: Ponte sobre o Tejo, lit. "bridge over the Tagus").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “25 de Abril Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.