Alexandre Bridge - Paris

This is at the end of the Avenue Winston Churchill. It consists of a single metal span, 350 feet long and 130 feet wide, linking the Esplanade des Invalides and the Champs Elysees. It was built between 1896 and 1900 to celebrate the alliance between Russia and France, and is named after Czar Alexander III, whose son, Nicholas 11, performed its inauguration. On the two piers on the right bank are the statues represent ing medieval France and modern France, while those on the left bank represent Renaissance France and the France of Louis XIV. On the bridge's entrance piers are the allegories of the rivers Seine and Neva, symbolising France and Russia. The whole bridge has exuberant decorations with cherubs, allegorical marine deities, garlands of flowers and lamps supported by cherubs.



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