Irwin Bridge

India / Maharashtra / Sangli-Miraj /
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This is one of the oldest, historic and largest bridges built on river Krishna during the British rule. This Bridge is built of Red colored stone and has two passages to climb down in the middle of the bridge and view the river water. The Ex Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Late Shri Vasantdada Patil who led the freedom struggle in Western Maharashtra himself jumped into river Krishna from Irwin Bridge when he was chased by the British army.

This was built by V. R. Ranade and Sons Company. The funding for this project mainly came from Shrimant Partvardhan Raje of Sangli Sansthan.

The bridge connecting to Islampur & further Pune.
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Coordinates:   16°51'36"N   74°33'25"E

Comments

  • the bridge is built in 1929 and one of the oldest and only of it's kind it is very beutiful
  • Yes this is best architecture and design mafe n best example of history of Sangli, oldest bridge.
  • This bridge looks wonderful when its LED lights on
  • I used to jump from the bridge when full flood used to be there. The construction of the bridge is in red colored stone. there are two inspection galleries underneath the bridge. This is very much nostalgic now, looking at the photographs of the bridge after nearly 40-45 years. There are lots of memories connected to this bridge.
  • This bridge looks wonderful
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