The Eiffel bridge hanging at the Giza zoo🇪🇬

The story of the bridge that preceded the "Eiffel Tower" in Paris by ten years

The zoo in Giza, one of the oldest parks of its kind in the Middle East and Africa, is undergoing a radical development worthy of its historical status and as a popular tourist attraction loved by adults and children. Egyptians, Arabs and foreigners.

The bridge was built about 10 years before the Eiffel Tower and was designed by the same French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

The construction of the suspension bridge began before the official opening of the Giza Zoo in 1891, and became the icon of the park and a platform to view all corners of the zoo from its highest height.

On the sides of the Eiffel Bridge, the emblem of Khedive Ismail, who ruled Egypt at the time, in addition to the inscription of the royal crown shape, 3 stars and a crescent.

The bridge was part of Ismail Pasha's Park, where he built the bridge before dedicating part of his palace to become a zoo.