Saturday, December 18, 2010

10 Amazing Bridges Around the World

Bridges are considered to be the incredible engineering achievements today. Their extraordinary constructions and design bring them in the focus of attention. The most famous of them have even become a well-known tourist attractions. Due to their unique features they have achieved the vast popularity and millions of foreign people try to visit them during their trips. Today we present you the most awesome of them (from our point of view). This post shows various examples of bridges: the old and the modern concepts, footbridges and rail-and-road bridges, swing bridges, floating bridges, hanging bridges etc.

 Peace Bridge (designed by Santiago Calatrava)
























Banpo Bridge (South Korea)The Fountain Bridge


Carr Bridge (Scotland)




Chengyang Bridge (Sanjiang of Guangxi Province, China) 


 Gateshead Millennium Bridge (Gateshead to Newcastle, UK)




Lu Pu Bridge (China)


Magdeburg Water Bridge (Magdeburg, Germany)


Nanpu Bridge (Shanghai, China)


 New Footbridge (Edinburgh)


Ponte Vecchio (Florence, Italy)
 

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