Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge — Attraction in Macau

Beautiful bridge built at the narrowest point between Macau and Taipa in 1970-74. This opened up the quick development of Taipa.

Due to budget constraints, inclination was maximized to reduce cost and still allow ships through, creating a slender and iconic arched body. This bridge's profile was used in the new post-handover flag of Macau.

Today, the bridge is reserved to public transport. There are two narrow sidewalks along it, which take about 20 minutes to walk through. It does allow interesting views of the city and the river, specially if walking towards Macau. Many joggers use it.

Note that the buses speeding closely might be uncomfortable and there are no facilities along it.

The bridge, departing from the hills of Taipa Pequena (where the tail is the sculpture panel) is said to be a dragon that crosses the river and which energy is gathered in the Ferreira do Amaral roundabout (with a fountain at the bottom), right at the entrance of the Old Lisboa Casino (and later, the Grand Lisboa and also Wynn Macau). An interesting fengshui detail, a science which seems to conduct so much of this gambling city's urban...

The Macau-Taipa Bridge (more formally known as Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge) is one of three road crossing of the harbour, linking the Macao peninsula with Cotai Island.

This is the middle and shortest of the three bridges at 2.5 kilometres in length. It is also the oldest having been constructed and opened in 1974. Locally, it also referred to as the Old Bridge.

Interestingly, this is the only bridge you can cross on foot between the peninsula and north side of Taipa Village on the other side. Otherwise, you are likely to use the bridge if you take taxi rides from one side...

A 2.4-km bridge that only public buses and taxis are allowed to travel on.It is single-laned with a narrow sidewalk on both sides of the bridge.The scenery is nice on nice days.It took around 24 minutes to walk across this bridge,with taxis and buses zooming past a metre away from me every few seconds.The bridge is sloped/arched on the north side.A considerable and free-of-charge/zero-priced way to get across both...