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Cầu Long Biên
A view that stops the walk · Hanoi, Vietnam
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The experience
The 2.4-kilometre iron bridge across the Red River, designed by Daydé & Pillé of Paris, built between 1899 and 1902 with more than three thousand Vietnamese labourers and opened in 1903. Nineteen spans carry it 43.5 metres above the water. It was the only Red River crossing linking Hanoi to Haiphong, which is why American bombers went after it repeatedly from 1967 — the centre span was destroyed that August and only about half the structure is original today. Cars were long ago moved to the newer Chương Dương bridge.
A hundred-and-twenty-year-old French iron bridge you can only cross on foot, two bicycles wide, above the banana fields of the river.
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Where it is
Hanoi, Vietnam · Long Biên / Hồng Hà, over the Red River. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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