The Barbican footbridge will be closed from Monday 8 January - Monday 15 January 2024 (Image: Katie Oborn) The alternative route is to follow the cobbled path around the whole of Sutton Harbour, which takes more time. The footbridge usually allows people to cross the harbour from Plymouth Barbican to reach the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth Fisheries and Rockfish restaurant. The current Sutton Harbour lock gate repair project is being carried out by the Environment Agency in collaboration with the Sutton Harbour Company - along with funding from the UK government. This comes as part of continuing works on the lock gates which work as a flood defence for the whole of Sutton Harbour. There will also be essential maintenance carried out to the ‘stop log’ under the walkway. Work will involve ‘craning off’ the old walking from the footbridge and it will be replaced. Read more: Plymouth roadworks this week include lengthy Marsh Mills scheme Read more: Major plans for Plymouth's waterfront The Environment Agency has commissioned contractors to carry out repair and safety work to the footbridge from Monday 8 January - Monday 15 January 2024 - meaning the walkway will be closed to pedestrians for each day of this whole week. People wishing to cross from the Barbican side or in the other direction will have to detour around Sutton Harbour instead. Ongoing work means that the walkway on the footbridge will be replaced and pedestrians will not be able to cross until the walkway work is completed. The pedestrian footbridge usually allows pedestrians to cross the waterway easily from Plymouth Barbican over to the National Marine Aquarium in Coxside. The paintings by local Catholic artist Hans Heinrich Wägmann depict historical events from the town, and despite the fire destroying most of the artwork, you can still admire some of the original paintings when crossing the river.Plymouth's Stton Harbour swing bridge will be closed from today - Monday 8 January 2024. There are dozens of interior paintings on triangular panels underneath the bridge’s roof that date back to the 17th century. Peter's Chapel - the oldest original church structure in Lucerne - Chapel Bridge is picturesque in more ways than one. It is believed to be the oldest covered wooden bridge in Europe, as well as the world's oldest surviving truss bridge, although much of it had to be replaced after a devastating fire in 1993. Originally built in 1333 as part of Lucerne's fortifications, Chapel Bridge connected the old town on the right bank of the Reuss to the new town on the left, securing the city from attack via Lake Lucerne to the south. The building rising from the river alongside the footbridge is a medieval water tower, which has been used as a prison, torture chamber, local archive, and treasury. The most famous of these bridges - the centerpiece and symbol of Lucerne - is the Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge), a covered wooden footbridge which you can see spanning diagonally across the Reuss in our photo. Surrounded by snow-capped mountains just out of frame, Lucerne lies in the Swiss-German-speaking part of central Switzerland and is divided into two parts linked by a series of bridges. We're in the heart of Switzerland looking down on the compact city of Lucerne, a charming waterfront setting along the shores of its namesake lake and the river Reuss. © Neleman Initiative/Gallery Stoc A Swiss city of bridges
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