Ponte Rainha Santa Isabel – Coimbra, Portugal

The Rainha Santa Isabel Bridge is a towering bridge over the Mondego River , upstream from Coimbra's city ​​center . It was opened in 2004. Its construction allowed faster access to the southern part of the city, namely the University of Coimbra's Pole II , from IC2 and the left bank of Mondego. It is an asymmetrical tie-down bridge designed by engineer António Reis, with a total span of 329.4 m and a main span of length 186.5 m. It consists of two lanes with three lanes in each direction on a 30 m wide board During the design phase, it was tentatively named " Bridge Europe, " by which it is still sometimes referred to