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This is a list of the world's longest bridges that are more than 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) in length sorted by their full length above land and water. The main span is the longest span without any ground support.
The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte Vasco da Gama) is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It is the second longest bridge in Europe , after the Crimean Bridge , [ 8 ] and the longest one in the European Union .
The Europa Bridge or Bridge of Europe (Europabrücke) is a 777-metre-long (2,549 ft) bridge carrying the A13 Brenner Autobahn (and European route E45) over the 657-metre (2,156 ft) Wipp valley just south of Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
The Zeeland Bridge was built between 1963 and 1965. It was inaugurated on 15 December 1965 by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and was originally called Eastern Scheldt Bridge (Dutch: Oosterscheldebrug) before being renamed the Zealand Bridge on 13 April 1967. [3] At the time of its completion, it was the longest bridge in Europe.
Europe’s longest bridge connects the Russian city of Krasnodar in the east to Kerch in ... The Crimean Bridge runs over the Kerch Strait and is the only direct road link between Russia and the ...
The bridge complex was built between 1890 and 1895 over the Danube, the Borcea branch of the Danube, and Balta Ialomiței island.When it was completed with a total length (including viaducts) of 4,087.95 m (13,411.9 ft) it became the longest bridge in Europe and the second longest in the world. [2]
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge is an extradosed bridge over the River Barrow in Ireland.It was built as part of the N25 New Ross Bypass, and was officially opened on 29 January 2020 by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and opened to traffic on 30 January 2020, becoming Ireland's longest bridge.
The bridge's diagonal system consisted of 13 spans, each measuring 107 meters (351 ft) in length. It held the title of being the longest in Europe for a considerable amount of time, with a total length of 1,483 meters (4,865 ft). Initially, the bridge was named Alexandrovsky, in honor of the 25th anniversary of Emperor Alexander II's reign.