Visit Pula Breakwater (Lukobran Pula), Pula, Croatia

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The Pula breakwater was built by Austria-Hungary between 1910 and 1914 with the aim of defending against enemy shipping and protecting the coast and the city from the onslaught of larger waves. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of stone and tens of thousands of cubic meters of concrete were built into the breakwater . Although the planned length was 1,200 meters, 141 meters of the unbuilt part remained, and a little more than 250 meters were unfinished. It is seven meters wide, and the depth to the natural rock, on which the embankment is built, is from 20 to 36 meters. The breakwater's root is at Cape Kumpar , and it stretches 350 degrees towards Cape Pro&scaron;tina . Today, the breakwater is unsightly, unstable and potentially dangerous due to the lack of care for this strategic infrastructural object, which has turned it into a dilapidated and less and less functional structure. The vertical wall of the breakwater has collapsed, i.e. it is incomplete in a length of 254 meters, and the existing berms (stone piled under water, which additionally strengthens the breakwater) are untidy. In some parts, the crown is completely destroyed and below the sea level, which allows even moderate waves to overflow . Most of it is impassable, and in some places pieces of rusty steel reinforcement can be seen . Also, under the influence of waves and corrosion , the connecting rings have disappeared. The embankment and other parts of the breakwater are slightly damaged and do not threaten the stability of the building. In order for the breakwater to be able to defend Pula from the tidal wave and be functional for economic and recreational purposes, its rehabilitation is necessary, which should be carried out in three phases. The first phase, worth 170,000 euros , would include the excavation of the existing embankment next to the existing breakwater wall itself. Then, in the second phase, slightly more than 3,800,000 euros would be invested in the installation of stone throwers and berms on both sides of the existing breakwater wall. The next phase, which would be worth 100,000 euros less than the second phase, would consist of placing concrete over the existing wall and, on top of it, a reinforced concrete crown with reinforcement. After the rehabilitation, the breakwater should fulfill the task for which it was originally intended.

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