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The Triple Bridge (Slovene: Tromostovje, in older sources also Tromostje [1] [2]) comprises three bridges spanning the Ljubljanica River in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It connects the historical medieval town on the southeastern bank with the central Prešeren Square on the northwestern bank.
The Triple Frontier (Spanish: Triple Frontera, Portuguese: Tríplice Fronteira) is a tri-border area along the junction of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, where the Iguazú and Paraná rivers converge. Near the confluence are the cities of Puerto Iguazú (Argentina), Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil) and Ciudad del Este (Paraguay).
The bridge was constructed in 1981 at the instigation of the Midland Area Community Foundation (MACF). [4] The bridge cost $732,000 to build, and took 6,400 hours of labor. [ 5 ] Ten railroad car loads of prefabricated wood, and 337 cubic yards (258 m 3 ) of concrete were used to construct three arches, which weigh 44,000 pounds (20,000 kg) apiece.
Map of the Tres Fronteras produced by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.. Tres Fronteras (Portuguese: Três Fronteiras, English: Three Frontiers) is an area of the Amazon rainforest in the Upper Amazon region of South America.
The Fish Footbridge offers a view of the neighbouring Triple Bridge to the north and the Cobbler's Bridge to the South. It is a transparent glass-made bridge, illuminated at night by in-built LEDs. [138] From 1991 to 2014 the bridge was a wooden one and decorated with flowers, while since its reconstruction in 2014, it is made of glass.
Jože Plečnik (pronunciation ⓘ) (23 January 1872 – 7 January 1957) was a Slovenian architect who had a major impact on the modern architecture of Vienna, Prague and of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, most notably by designing the iconic Triple Bridge and the Slovenian National and University Library building, as well as the embankments along the Ljubljanica River, the Ljubljana ...
Triple Island, British Columbia, Canada; Triple Falls (disambiguation), four waterfalls in the United States & Canada; Triple Glaciers, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; Triple Crossing, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross; Triple Bridge, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana ...
At the triple junction each of the three boundaries will be one of three types – a ridge (R), trench (T) or transform fault (F) – and triple junctions can be described according to the types of plate margin that meet at them (e.g. fault–fault–trench, ridge–ridge–ridge, or abbreviated F-F-T, R-R-R).