Walk across
At sunset.
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The São Vicente Suspension Bridge is one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, linking São Vicente island at the Barbosas hill with the Japuí district on the mainland, carrying pedestrians and cars between São Vicente and Praia Grande. São Vicente itself is Brazil's oldest town, founded by the Portuguese in 1532, and adjoins Santos. The bridge began in 1910 with a practical purpose: Santos's sanitation commission, led by the engineer Francisco Saturnino de Brito, proposed it to carry a sewage pipe from Santos and São Vicente to the ocean at Itaipu point. August Kloenne designed it, its materials came from Germany on ten ships, work began in 1911 and it opened in May 1914. It was restored in 2015, when its corroded load-bearing cables were replaced. The best way to enjoy it is to walk across at sunset, when its towers and cables are reflected in the channel and the São Vicente hills rise behind..
At sunset.
1914 engineering.
São Vicente, 1532.
Between Morro dos Barbosas and Japuí, São Vicente
To carry a sewage pipe from Santos and São Vicente to the ocean; the engineer Saturnino de Brito proposed it in 1910.