Interpretive center will cost 4.3 million – Observer

The construction of the Interpretive Center Bridge on April 25 will reach an investment of EUR 4.3 million and should be completed within one year, announced Tuesday the director general of the Tourism Association of Lisbon.

the investment will be supported by the Tourism Association of Lisbon, an entity that will explore the space for 15 years.

According to the director general of the Tourism Association of Lisbon, Vítor Costa, is open a tender for the project award, providing it is completed even during the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the April 25 Bridge until August 6, 2017.

the price to visit the Interpretive Center Bridge April 25 – Experience Pilar 7, the pillar of Alcântara, in Lisbon, will be seven euros per person, said Vítor Costa, expecting to receive 175,000 visitors a year

in the presentation ceremony of the future. Interpretive center of the bridge April 25 was attended by the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, who considered that this “is a good project for the city [of Lisbon] and the country.

” it will be a important element of appreciation of the bridge itself, [...] more impetus from the tourist point of view, a further boost to the economy, another element of promoting the city, promotion of the two banks of the Tagus, “said Pedro Marques, stating that “is an excellent investment.”

According to the minister, the 25 de Abril Bridge is “a central element of union between the North and South of the country, territorial cohesion factor” which brings people and the country’s economy.

“It’s a bridge for today, but for decades to come too,” said Pedro Marques, stressing the importance of mobility point of view of infrastructure, as well as area development Metropolitana de Lisboa.

After 50 years of the inauguration of the 25th of April Bridge, a work to the Minister of Planning and Infrastructure is the “pride of the Portuguese engineering”, a tourist and cultural project will be developed on the bridge, part of “a panoramic viewpoint and a sensory, physical and intellectual in the pillar of Alcantara”.

according to the vice president of Infrastructure Portugal, José Serrano Gordo, building idea Interpretive center of the April 25 Bridge came about because “numerous requests” from people interested in film, photograph and write books on the bridge.

within the 50 years of the 25th of April Bridge, the tourist and cultural project plans to open the public infrastructure, assured the head of infrastructure Portugal, the entity that manages the bridge

One of the main attractions of the Interpretative Bridge Center April 25 -. Experience Pilar 7 will be an elevator that rises about 80 meters high from the base of the pillar of Alcantara, allowing a view over Lisbon, the Tagus river to the south bank.

the Tourism Association of Lisbon expects the project on the history of the Bridge 25 April will also contribute to “a higher spot tourist use of Lisbon, from Low to Bethlehem,” said Vítor Costa.

in this sense, the mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, believes that the project will give “to know another look over the bridge,” especially the interior of the infrastructure, and that puts “another balcony over the city of Lisbon, on the region of Lisbon, on the southern margin of the Tagus river.”

the mayor stressed the importance of this new tourist attraction for the city of Lisbon, and for its location as it decentralizes the areas already searched thick as the Baixa, Castle and Chiado.

inaugurated on August 6, 1966, the first bridge over the Tagus river in Lisbon, named after Salazar and after 1974 became known as Bridge April 25 Revolution, was a landmark of engineering in Portugal and, past 50 years, it remains a key element of the country’s transport system, used daily by about 300,000 users, by road and rail.