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Vasco da Gama Bridge

Vasco da Gama Bridge

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Vasco da Gama Bridge

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Location: Moscavide, Lisbon, Portugal

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2. Vasco da Gama Bridge – Vasco da Gama Tower loop from Sacavém

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3. Oceanário de Lisboa – Iberian Lynx Sculpture loop from Braço de Prata

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Holger

April 28, 2022

North of the Parque das Nações, the Vasco da Gama Bridge swings elegantly over the Tejo: 17.2 km long (of which 12 are over the water), clear height 45 m (maximum where the cable-stayed bridge is; otherwise it is much flatter over the water), longest span 420m. Before the Crimean Bridge was completed in 2019, it was the longest bridge in Europe

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🇪🇸Globetrotter🇵🇹

June 29, 2023

Very nice area/park under the bridge.
Here you can pursue your fitness activities but also go for a walk with the dog 🐕

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JakobusPilger

July 10, 2025

By naming this bridge after him, the capital of Portugal honors one of the country's greatest sailors and explorers: Vasco da Gama, born around 1469 in Sines (now the district of Setubal). He was of noble birth and a member of the "Order of the Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ," and enjoyed the trust of King Manuel I. At the end of the 15th century, several European states strove to find a sea route to India (his contemporary Christopher Columbus, for example, had sailed west on behalf of the Spanish royal family and, without even realizing it, discovered America in 1492). Vasco da Gama, on the other hand, opted for the southern route: in 1498, he circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and successfully continued on to India, where he became its second viceroy. Even 500 years after his death (1524), his name is by no means forgotten and lives on in this modern 20th-century building.

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Elevation 60 m

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Vasco da Gama Bridge

1. Oceanário de Lisboa – Iberian Lynx Sculpture loop from Moscavide

2. Vasco da Gama Bridge – Vasco da Gama Tower loop from Sacavém

3. Oceanário de Lisboa – Iberian Lynx Sculpture loop from Braço de Prata

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