Suspension Bridge

With 110 years of history behind it, this black iron colossus is still found on the river Charentes. tourism at that time did not permit the building of a normal a bridge between the two shores of the region, therefore this bridge flourished to act as a ferry between the two sides. Since 1900 this great work of 19th Century industrial engineering has been a steady part of Rochefort´s landscape. It measures some 66 meters high and 176 long (like a 11-storey building). Nowadays, the cars pass from one side to another via a viaduct. Of the five bridges of this type that the engineer Ferdinand Arnodin constructed in France (Marseille, Brest, Rouen, Nantes and Rochefort), only this one is still in use.