Real Ferdinando Bridge

{{Short description|Suspension bridge in Italy}}

The catenary suspension bridge of Real Ferdinando or the Ferdinandeo Bridge over the River Garigliano was the first iron catenary suspension bridge built in Italy, and one of the earliest in continental Europe. This bridge, which was technologically advanced for its age, was built in 1832 by the Bourbon Kingdom of Two Sicilies.[http://www.imss.fi.it/milleanni/cronologia/cronsca/isca1800.html Cronologia delle scienze applicate] Università di Firenze[http://www.ticcihcongress2006.net/paper/Paper%207/RobertoParisi_Ponti.pdf As an «Overturned Rainbow». The suspension bridges in the italian architectural culture of the 19th Century], Roberto Parisi, in Atti dal XIII Congresso TICCIH organizzato dall'Istituto Momigliano per la Storia d'Impresa - Terni e Roma 14-18 settembre 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042045/http://www.ticcihcongress2006.net/paper/Paper%207/RobertoParisi_Ponti.pdf |date=March 4, 2016 }} The engineer who designed the bridge was Luigi Giura.

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