Bridge of Four Lions

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Bridge of Four Lions is a 28-metre-long pedestrian bridge over the Griboyedov Canal in Saint Petersburg, connecting Lviny Lane to Malaya Podyacheskaya Street. The Lion Bridge is in the Admiralteysky District of Saint Petersburg, connecting the Kazansky and Spassky Islands. Its abutments are crowned with four cast iron sculptures of lions, which give the bridge its name. The structure, suspended by cables emerging from the mouths of lions, was constructed in 1825 according to the design of two well-established bridge builders, Wilhelm von Traitteur and Vasily Khristianovich. It is an outstanding monument of bridge-building architecture of the first quarter of the 19th century. It is also one of the three surviving pedestrian chain bridges in Saint Petersburg (along with the Bank and Pochtamtsky Bridges).

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