TIRANA, February 15/ATA/ The Zogu Bridge over the Mat River will be subject to emergency intervention.
Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote today in the social media that the work is ready to start to revive the cultural monument, the Zogu Bridge over the Mat River.
“The project drawn up by an inter-institutional group has already received the green light from the National Council of Cultural Heritage for intervention in this object”, wrote PM Rama in a post on social media.
The technical implementation project for the emergency intervention in the cultural monument, Zogu Bridge, is the result of the work of respected professors and experts of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Polytechnic University and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, which, by order of the prime minister, got together for the design of the project, within a short time and in context of the Pact for the University.
A few days ago, Minister of Culture Elva Margariti announced the installation of monitoring equipment, which will provide technical and scientific data for design of implementation project.
According to Margariti, the approval of this project paves the way for the generation of funds, the start of design tasks and the launch of integral interventions to solve the problem on the ground, in the entire facility.
Zogu Bridge was inaugurated on May 26, 1927 and was designed by the Swiss engineer Erwin Schnitter.
The bridge is built with six arches, each 54 meters long. Built with cement and iron as one of the most modern bridge construction systems (for that time), even today, it has not lost its beauty and value./p.s./
