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Treviglio
2021 May 20
Treviglio (Italian: [treˈviʎʎio] (About this soundlisten), Bergamasque: Treì) is a town and comune (i.e. municipality) in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Northern Italy. It lies 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the province capital, in the lower territory called "Bassa Bergamasca".

Coordinates: 45°31′N 09°36′E
Country
Italy
Region
Lombardy
Province
Bergamo (BG)
Frazioni
Battaglie, Castel Cerreto, Geromina, Pezzoli
Government
• Mayor
Juri Imeri
Area[1]
• Total
32.22 km2 (12.44 sq mi)
Elevation
125 m (410 ft)
Population (31 December 2015)[2]
• Total
29,924
• Density
930/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Demonym(s)
Trevigliesi
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
24047
Dialing code
0363
Patron saint
Saint Martin
Saint day
last day of February
Website
Official website
It's also part of the geographic area named "Gera d'Adda", included among the rivers Fosso Bergamasco to the North, Adda to the West and Serio to the East.

With approximately 30,000 inhabitants, the comune is now the second most populous town in the province.

It is rarely called "The tractor town" for the presence of the SAME Deutz-Fahr headquarters or seldom "The town of courtyards" for their preponderant presence in the Old Town.

It is subdivided in five main quartiers: Old town, West zone, North zone, the recent built East zone and the PIP (Industrial Zone). Northward lie four frazioni (subdivisions): Geromina, Castel Cerreto, Battaglie and Cascina Pezzoli; once the village of Castel Rozzone was also a frazione of Treviglio.

The coat of arms is composed of a crenellated tower, which represents the city with its Ghibelline past; flanked by two golden lions rampant, for its free and valiant citizenry and topped by an eagle, symbol of the privileges obtained by the Holy Roman Empire, which is holding a pig aloft, symbol of the achieved prosperity.
Novoarbatsky
2020 Mar 22
Increíble vista, no está lejos de Arbat, es el puente de la Av. New Arbat. Estación Smolenskaya, Metro 4 Celeste, también esta cerca. En el vídeo se puede apreciar, los barcos de los paseos de Radison Colection, que salen del Hotel Ucrania que es una de las 7 hermanas, Una edificación increíble.

Novoarbatsky Bridge ( Kalininsky Bridge ) is a road bridge across the Moskva River in Moscow . It connects the Western Administrative District (Kutuzovsky Prospekt) and Central (Novy Arbat). One of the first bridges in Russia with an all-welded steel-reinforced concrete superstructure and a roadway slab compressed with high-strength reinforcement [1] [2] .

The creation of the bridge was part of the General Plan of 1935. Design began in 1939. Sketch designs were completed by several teams of authors. According to the project of the studio of the architect Alexander Vlasov , the bridge consisted of a three-span beam. The river span, the longest, had to be supported by arches of metal pipes filled with concrete. The project did not provide for the construction of coastal abutments. The design department of trust No. 3 of Glavvodspetsstroy (author - engineer NI Ermolin) developed two alternative options, which differed in the solution of coastal spans. In the first - concrete spans were chosen, in the second - steel [5] .

Various architects undertook the architectural design: L. Polyakov , A. Burov and N. Colley . According to Polyakov's project, monumental arches were planned on the coastal pillars, which supported massive pylons decorated with bas-reliefs with complex staircases leading to the embankment. The abutments on the opposite bank were supposed to be decorated with high obelisks. The main element of the composition in Burov's project was to be a wide staircase descending to the embankment along the river. Monumental propylaea towered over the staircase . Colley's project envisaged the installation of huge sculptures above the pillars, which symbolized the unity of the Soviet Union withWestern Ukraine . The arches of the main span were decorated with overlays designed to create a sense of monumentality [6] .

The engineering solution of Vlasov and the architectural design of Collie were chosen for implementation, but this was prevented by the outbreak of the war [6] .

They returned to the design of the bridge in 1950, the previous projects were no longer considered, new ones were presented in March 1951 at a meeting of the architectural council of Moscow . According to the plan of the architect Boris Nadezhin, the arch of the bridge with a span of 162 m was supposed to be reinforced concrete and faced with granite, while two smaller arches of 42 meters would block the coastal passages, the width of the bridge was planned at 47 meters [3] .

According to another project by architect K. Yakovlev and engineer M. S. Rudenko, the bridge blocked the river with one steel arch with a span of 162 m and a width of 47 m. The members of the council accepted this project for execution. The design assignment for the construction was prepared in 1954 by Mosgiprotrans and Transmostproekt of the USSR Ministry of Railways [7] . Initially, it was proposed to install monumental columns with sculptures on the bridge, symbolizing the glory of the Soviet people, but this did not happen [3] .

The authors of the approved project of the bridge are engineers M. S. Rudenko, S. Terekhin, M. Kryuchkov and architects K. Yakovlev and A. Dushkin , co-authors - architects M. Markovsky , A. Susorov, B. Tkhor [3] [4] . The bridge was built in 1954-1957. Mostootryad № 4 of the Ministry of Transport Construction.

On October 4, 1993, tanks fired at the Government building from the bridge , in which the opponents of Yeltsin's reforms from among the deputies of the Supreme Soviet the RSFSR sat .

By the beginning of the 2000s. During the inspection of the bridge, a significant decrease in the carrying capacity of the bridge, sagging of the superstructure by 10-15 cm, violation of drainage and waterproofing, the development of corrosion damage to steel.