Corso Vittorio Emanuele II Torino

In 1840 a second bridge was built over the Po, after the Napoleonic one at Piazza Vittorio. The new bridge connects the King’s Avenue with the other bank of the river and the Hamlet of the Rubatto, the present Crimean Village. The bridge, named after Maria Theresa of Habsburg-Lorraine, wife of King Charles Albert, is 127 meters long and 6 meters wide and is made almost entirely of iron, designed by the French engineer Paul Lehaitre. The structure suffered several setbacks over time, was closed to the public in 1897 and demolished in 1906, to be replaced in 1908 by the new masonry bridge Umberto I.