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{{Infobox Bridge
|bridge_name=Pont de Recouvrance
|image=pont recouvrance.jpg|250px
|locale=[[Brest, France|Brest]], [[Brittany]], [[France]]
|coordinates={{coord|48|23|03.7|N|04|29|47.3|W|region:FR_type:landmark}}
|crosses=[[Penfeld]]
|type=[[Vertical lift bridge|Vertical lift]]
|length=88
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|height=70
|material=[[Béton armé]], [[acier]]
|begin=[[1950]]
|complete=[[1954]]
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Opened on [[17 July]] [[1954]], the ”’pont de Recouvrance”’ is a bridge in [[Brest, France]] across the river [[Penfeld]]. It was the largest [[vertical lift bridge]] in Europe from its construction until the opening of the [[Pont Gustave-Flaubert]] in 2008. It links the bottom of the [[rue de Siam]] to the [[Recouvrance, Brest|quartier de Recouvrance]], replacing a [[swing bridge]] (the [[pont National]]) destroyed by Allied bombardment in [[1944]].

Each pylon is 70m high and the 525-tonne moving cradle is 88m long.

==History==
===Before the bridges===
===The Pont National===
===The new post-war bridges===
====The pont de Kervallon====
====The ‘pont Gueydon’ floating bridge====
====The Pont de l’Hôpital or Pont de l’Harteloire====
{{Main|Pont de l’Harteloire}}

===The Pont de Recouvrance===

==Characteristics==
==Trivia==

==Bibliography==
*”Le pont levant de Brest”, brochure edited by La Télémécanique Électrique (1954 ?)

==External links==
*[http://www.structurae.info/fr/structures/data/s0002932/index.cfm Structurae]

[[fr:Pont de Recouvrance]]
[[lb:Recouvrance-Bréck]]

[[Category:Brest]]
[[Category:Bridges in France]]