Podurile Dintre Feteşti Şi Cernavodă - Anghel Saligny

The bridges between Fetești and Cernavodă - "Anghel Saligny" form an architectural ensemble of great national and world value, being designed and built by the Romanian engineer Anghel Saligny.

In 1887, the construction of the railway between Bucharest and Constanța had reached Fetești, at which time the station in the locality was also inaugurated.

In the same year, the engineer Anghel Saligny was appointed to build the railway bridges over the Danube, thus facilitating the connection between Wallachia and Dobrogea, a province that had returned to Romania after the War of Independence of 1877-1878, and realizing the railway connection of the capital with Constanța, the main port on the Black Sea.

Construction of the bridges began in 1890 and was completed in 1895.

The bridges between Fetești and Cernavodă were inaugurated on October 1, 1895. At that time, the bridges had a total length of 4088 meters, being the longest bridge in continental Europe and one of the largest metal bridges in the world.

The system consisted of a bridge over the Borcea branch, another bridge over the Danube and a viaduct over the Balta Ezerului, which was abolished in 1969 and replaced by an embankment, after the balta was cleared.

The structure of the bridges was made of metal beams of mild steel, joined by rivets, having brackets and joints on stone piers. The bridge over Borcea had three spans of 140 meters, and the one over the main branch of the Danube had four spans of 140 meters and one of 195 meters.