Solferino Bridge

The Solferino Bridge was built in Paris in honor of the victory of French troops on the Austro-Italian army near the Italian village of Solferino. It was called the Leopold Sedar Senghor Pedestrian Bridge until 2006. It was opened in 1861 and originally consisted of three cast-iron arches connecting the embankments of the Tuileries and Anatole France. At that time it was not pedestrian and was used only for traffic.

By 1960, the structure of the bridge came into disrepair and it was destroyed. And exactly a year later, a new pedestrian bridge was built on the same site, which lasted until 1992, as it was a temporary structure. Then, following the results of an international competition for the project of the new bridge, the project of engineer Mark Mimram was chosen, which provided for the construction of a lightweight structure. And in 1999, an elegant 115-meter arch grew above the Seine River, connecting the Tuileries Garden with the Musée d'Orsay.

The bridge impresses with its beauty and at the same time simplicity of design: wooden flooring is supported by two mesh arches connected by traverses. The Solferino Bridge, made in the modernist style, not only organically fits into the Parisian landscape, but is also an important topographical object on the city map.