Paris - Panoramic pictures
Paris - 05/09/2004 - 21:00
Night is falling on the river Seine, view from the Bir Hakeim bridge Built in 1903-05 it combines a road bridge and a metro viaduct in the upper part. It's a two part bridge as it straddle the Ile des Cygnes island. Called the Passy viaduct until 1948, the work was renamed the Pont de Bir-Hakeim to commemorate General Koenig's June 1942 victory over Rommel in the Libyan desert. The statue is called La France renaissante by the danish sculptor Wederkinch. I've waited here for the sunset but night was falling to quickly - or I was to slow- to take a better exposed panorama.
