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#LandWasserViaduct #BerninaExpress #GlacierExpress #Landwasserviadukt A ride with beauty and boldness combined – must for all railway fans! The Landwasser viaduct is one of the most elegant bridge constructions, and the most frequently photographed bridge in Switzerland. The construction of the main pillars of the Landwasser viaduct in 1901/1902 was considered a huge architectural feat, as this took place without scaffolding and solely two cranes. And 106 years later, in the year 2009, the masonry and track trough of the viaduct were repaired for the very fist time. The viaduct wall of natural dolomite lime is 142 meters long and at 65 meters high extends in a curve over the rugged Landwasser Valley and inside a tunnel, the entrance of which is on a vertical rock wall. From Filisur, a small beautiful village, one can reach to a vantage point in just half an hour on foot, from where you have a dizzying view of the famous Landwasser Viaduct. Next a path leads either down to the Landwasser River under the via
