Colombo Salles Bridge, Bridge in Florianópolis, Brazil

The Colombo Salles Bridge is a concrete bridge 1,227 metres long, carrying four lanes in the island-to-mainland direction only. Its design by architect Pedro Paulo de Mello Saraiva matches that of the later steel Pedro Ivo Campos Bridge. In the photograph it appears as a dark silhouette: a flat deck on tall vertical piers, a wide opening beneath the central span, and thin poles topped by small lamps along the deck.

The Colombo Salles Bridge was inaugurated in 1975 as the second bridge of the complex linking Santa Catarina Island to the mainland. It was named by the Santa Catarina Legislative Assembly after the engineer Colombo Machado Salles, then state governor. Its architectural project was authored by Pedro Paulo de Mello Saraiva, and it was built with a concrete structure but a design matching its iron successor, the Pedro Ivo Campos Bridge.

The bridge is named after engineer Colombo Machado Salles, governor of Santa Catarina when it was built, by decision of the state Legislative Assembly. It is the second of the three bridges linking Santa Catarina Island to the mainland, and traffic on it runs only from the island toward the mainland; the opposite direction uses the Pedro Ivo Campos Bridge.

The Colombo Salles Bridge carries traffic in one direction only, from the island to the mainland; the return crossing is made on the neighbouring Pedro Ivo Campos Bridge. The deck has four lanes, and the bridge is 1,227 metres long. Plan the return leg over the other span rather than expecting to drive back the same way.

The Colombo Salles Bridge carries traffic only from the island to the mainland; the opposite direction uses the Pedro Ivo Campos Bridge. Its concrete structure copies the design of that later steel bridge, and the architectural project was by Pedro Paulo de Mello Saraiva.