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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robert Tait in Prague

‘Like knocking down the Eiffel tower’: battle to save historic Prague bridge

Prague’s railway bridge
Prague’s much-photographed Vyšehra railway bridge over the Vltava river is earmarked for demolition. Photograph: JSK/Alamy

A historic Prague railway bridge, whose importance to the city’s landscape has been compared to the Eiffel tower in Paris, has been earmarked for demolition in a move denounced by architects and preservationists.

The much-photographed Vyšehrad bridge – instantly recognisable for its parabolic lattice steel structure – is unfit to carry an anticipated rising volume of rail traffic, claims Czech Railways, which plans to replace it with a modern structure.

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