According to Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP), the public company that manages the infrastructure connecting Lisbon and Almada, the official commemorative program, which will be released soon, involves various institutional, cultural and mobility-related entities, mobilising people "around a collective heritage that unites generations, territories and histories".

Different audiences

The program will include "initiatives aimed at different audiences, with actions to enhance historical and heritage value, innovative digital content, immersive experiences, visits, art and moments of popular participation, promoting greater proximity between the bridge and its users".

The public company also intends to project the work “as infrastructure of the future and a symbol of the country's engineering and innovation capacity” and recognise the “work developed by IP in the management, monitoring, maintenance and enhancement of this strategic infrastructure”.

“Connecting Lisbon and Almada, the bridge is today a strategic infrastructure for national mobility, guaranteeing the circulation of people and goods and contributing to economic, social and territorial cohesion,” IP highlighted.

25 April Bridge

The bridge over the Tagus River is used daily by more than 300,000 people by rail or road transport and “has become a symbol of progress, freedom, engineering and territorial cohesion, establishing itself as one of the most recognised images of Portugal in the world,” it added.

The bridge has a main span of 1,012.88 metres, a distance between anchorages of 2,227.64 metres, a height of 190.5 metres for the main towers above water level, and a depth of 80 metres for the south pier below water level, in addition to a total length of 20 kilometres of steel wire and 72,600 tons of worked and assembled steel.

It was built in less than four years, involving approximately 2,500 workers and 14 civil construction companies, and is "the largest suspension bridge in Europe with road and rail traffic," according to IP.