Bridges across the Seine River in Paris (France)

 

Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

Kate Simon

25th April Bridge over the Tagus River in Lisbon (Portugal)

 
Once more I see you—Lisbon, the Tagus and the rest—
A useless onlooker of you and of myself,
A foreigner here like everywhere else,
Incidental in life as in my soul,
A ghost wandering through halls of remembrances
To the sound of rats and creaking floorboards
In the accursed castle of having to live …

In a poem by  Fernando Pessoa

Bridge over the Qingyan River in Luofang Town, Liancheng, Fujian (China)

One night's east wind adorns a thousand trees with flowers
And blows down stars in showers.
Fine steeds and carved cabs spread fragrance en route;
Music vibrates from the flute;
The moon sheds its full light
While fish and dragon lanterns dance all night.
In gold-thread dress, with moth or willow ornaments,

...

From poem The Lantern Festival Night

by Qiji Xin

Tokyo Gate Bridge over the Tokyo Bay in Tokyo (Japan)

 
“Tokyo is a city of contrasts—where the past and future coexist in a strange harmony.”

Haruki Murakami

Bridge over a canal in the Stanislawa Staszica Park in Pila, Wielkopolska (Poland)

"Equality, liberty and property are the most necessary and simplest corollary of human rights."

Stanislaw Staszic,

after whom this park is named

Painting of the Fury Bridge over the Yulong River in Yangshuo, Guangxi (China)

The grass path
the secluded forest
the new leaves are tender
The morning cocks are singing
Orioles resonate

Water state of the Lijiang River
the grotesque peaks are pretty
Scenery of Yangshuo
the emerald mountains lie across

From the poem Scenary of

Yangshou, by Luo Zhihai

Chains Bridge crossing the Danube River in Budapest (Hungary)

...And the rain began to drizzle,
but as if it didn't matter, it stopped.
And yet, like someone watching
the long rain from a cave - I looked at the border:
it fell like a monotonous, eternal rain,
colorless, what was colorful, the past.

The Danube just flowed. And like a small child
on the lap of a fertile, absent-minded mother
, the foams played beautifully
and laughed at me.
They trembled in the tide of time like
rolling cemeteries with tombstones.
...

From the poem By the Danube,

Attila Jozsef

Old Bridge over the Juniata River in Mount Union, Pennsylvania (United States)

Wild roved an Indian girl,
Bright Alfarata,
Where sweep the waters
Of the blue Juniata!
Swift as an antelope
Through the forest going,
Loose were her jetty locks,
In many tresses flowing.

...

Excerpt from La Blue Juniata

song by Marion Dix Sullivan

Painting of a bridge over the Xishi River in Wuzhen, Zhejiang (China)

One year, there was a drought in Jiangnan and the river dried up. People fetched well water for drinking, and water was as expensive as oil. One day, the scholar Marshal Wen found an evil spirit poisoning the well, so the next day, he stayed by the well and did not let the people get water. People who didn't know the truth scolded and beat him. Desperated, the scholar jumped into the well. When the people salvaged the scholar who had drowned, they found he had poisoning symptoms. They realized he was a hero who died for the safety of the Wuzhen people.

Legend of Wuzhen

Quebec Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River between Quebec and Levis (Canada)

 The bridge question has again been revived after many years of slumber, and business men in Quebec seem hopeful that something will come of it, though the placing of a subsidy on the statute book is but a small part of the work to be accomplished, as some of its enthusiastic promoters will, ere long, discover.

Quebec Morning Chronicle, 1897

LONGEST CANTILEVER BRIDGE IN THE WORLD

Ten Holes Bridge over the Wubao Lake in Jinxi Ancient Town, Kunshan county, Jiangsu (China)

“In the spring breeze, willow branches brush gently; it’s the time for countless warblers and swallows to sing their songs. Apricots and peaches are in full pinkish bloom; the river with plentiful water winds side by side with the long dike. Beside the pontoon bridge, docked fishing boats float in the shallow waters; outside an unknown pub its wineshop sign flutters in the wind. When the misty rain veils the stream, I try to describe the beauty of the view but find myself at loss for words.”

Poem by Gao Qi about Jinxi

Midgley Bridge in Sedona, Arizona (United States)

Power spots are special places scattered around the earth. Power spots may have water that is said to heal, rocks that are said to speak to people, or fault lines that emit magnetic force. Sedona, Arizona is said to have power flow out of the earth in vortices across several landforms and is considered a sacred place.

Legend

Nine Arch Bridge in Demodara (Sri Lanka)

The construction of this bridge was given to a person called P.K. Appuhami. He completed the work within about a year and the cost of construction was so low, that the Britishers were unsure of the structural integrity of the bridge.Appuhami assured that he would lie down under the bridge on the first train voyage across this and he is said to have kept to the promise when the railway line was first commissioned.

Legend

Bridge over the Giffre River in Sixt Fer a Cheval, Haute Savoie (France)

"The valleys of the Alps are remarkable in that they are, in a way, complete. Each one presents, often within the most limited space, a kind of universe apart. They all have their own aspect, their own shape, their own light , their own particular sounds."

Victor Hugo

Sudarshan Setu Bridge between Bet Dwarkka Island and Okha, Gujarat (India)

"Delighted to inaugurate Sudarshan Setu today - a bridge that connects lands and people. It stands vibrantly as a testament of our commitment to development and progress."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Bridge over the Dalsland Canal in Haverud (Sweden)

 


The world like a spring day, – white islands. Quiet willow and haze horizon. A grouse amid the thaw; sparrow and river.

Poem by swedish poet Gunnar Björling

Bandra-Worli Sea Link Bridge over the Mahim Bay in Bombay or Mumbai, Maharastra (India)

Bandra-Worli Sea Link not as popular as predicted. Eight years after it was thrown open, the daily average traffic on the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link — or the Bandra Worli Sea Link — is smaller than a third of the original estimate. Data from MEP Infrastructure Developers — the toll collecting entity — shows an average of 37,336 vehicles use the sea link every day, way below the projection of 1,20,000 vehicles.

Finantial Express, March 13, 2017

Bastei Bridge in the Saxon Switzerland National Park, near Dresden, Saxony (Germany)

"From their new, adopted home they look eastwards and saw, about a day's walk away, a hill range. It had a strange, flattish profile, without any actual summits."

Lothar Kempe about 

Saxon Switzerland landscape

Old Bridge over the Tarn River in Albi, Tarn (France)

On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble. Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries).

Episcopal City of Albi

as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Lugard Footbridge in Kaduna (Nigeria)

"For two or three generations we can show the negro what we are, then we shall be asked to go away. Then we shall leave the land to those it belongs to with a feeling that they have better business friends in us than in other white men"

Frederick Lugard

Devil Bridge over the Navette Creek in La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar, Hautes Alpes (France)

 Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

Emily Greene Balch

Bridge in the Bernina Railway Line (Switzerland) in a painting by Edmund Welf

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”

Ernest Hemingway

Bridge over the Blatasnica River near Babusnica (Serbia)

 "A mighty river owes its power to the little brooks."

Serbian proverb

Old Pontoon Bridge crossing the Tone River in Sano, Kozuke (Japan) painted by Katsushika Hokusai

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

Katsushika Hokusai

Bandra-Worli Sea Link Bridge over the Mahim Bay in Bombay or Mumbai, Maharastra (India)

Neither by service nor fee
Come I to mine estate —
Mother of Cities to me,
For I was born in her gate,
Between the palms and the sea,
Where the world-end steamers wait.

In the poem To the City of Bombay

by Rudyard Kipling