The Golden Gate Bridge, is a suspension bridge located in California, United States, linking San Francisco Peninsula in the north to southern Marin. "Golden Gate" is also the name of the strait in which the bridge is built, and named after the Straits of Constantinople, also called the Golden Gate, and that connected Europe with Asia.
The Golden Gate is the most famous bridge in San Francisco despite not being the largest in this city, as the Bay Bridge is the main road.
In the decade after the First World War the traffic in the region of the Bay of San Francisco was multiplied by seven, so that the ferry system was unable to accommodate this growth. Listed as a suspension bridge, built between 1933 and 1937, with an approximate length of 1,280 meters, is suspended from two towers of 227 m in height. It has a six-lane roadway (three in each direction) and has protected lanes for pedestrians and bicycles available. The bridge also carries a canal and down the large amount of energy necessary for the development of the area where power lines and fuel lines. Under the structure, leaving 67 m height for the passage of ships through the bay. The Golden Gate was the greatest engineering feat of its time. It was painted with urgency to prevent rapid oxidation produced in the steel structure by the Pacific Ocean.
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