Luís I Bridge

This guide to the Luís I Bridge in Porto follows a tradition passed down through generations of Ribeira kids: diving from the upper deck for coins tossed by tourists, a custom with its own named jumps and a cameo in a 1942 film. You'll hear from Olinda, a former diver now in her eighties, before the guide turns to the bridge itself and the engineer who won the commission after Gustave Eiffel's design was turned down. It's a look at how a piece of nineteenth-century ironwork became a neighborhood rite of passage.