Glass Bridge
Steel footbridge with glass floor panels over a busy descent, framing views of the Dnipro and Podil.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Glass Bridge in Kyiv stands you on the see-through floor above Saint Volodymyr Descent and goes back to the opening day in May twenty nineteen, when the mayor and his brother, both former heavyweight boxing champions, staged a very public test of the glass. It touches on what lies under your feet, the police forensic teams, and the designer who watched visitors take up the challenge. Best heard standing on one of the glass panels.
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