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Elisabeth Bridge (Hungarian: Erzsébet híd, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɛrʒeːbɛt ˈhiːd]) is the third newest bridge of Budapest, Hungary, connecting Buda and Pest across the River Danube. The bridge is situated at the narrowest part of the Danube in the Budapest area, spanning only 290 m.
A plaque on the Pest side of the river reads "To commemorate the only two surviving bridges designed by William Tierney Clark: The Széchenyi Chain Bridge over the Danube at Budapest and the suspension bridge over the Thames at Marlow, England." The bridge was closed for traffic between March 2021 and August 2023 for renovations; [8]
The port lies at the strategic intersection of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal with the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor, part of the Trans-European Transport Networks, and it is located near two major ports: Port of Vienna and Port of Budapest. The port authority for the Port of Bratislava is the company Verejné prístavy, a.s. (Public ports, jsc.) (VP). [1]
It is north of Budapest on the right bank of the Danube in the Danube Bend. It had a population of 1,864 in 2010. It had a population of 1,864 in 2010. The town is the site of the remains of the Early Renaissance summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and a medieval citadel .
The port operates two passenger terminals (A and D), total length of its berths is 4.2 kilometres. Vessels with maximum length of 340 metres, 42 metres wide and draught of 10.7 m can enter the port. [2] [3] In 2019, the port served 10.64 million passengers. Cruise ships berthed at cruise terminal
"The mystery has finally been solved," Congo's health ministry says, after an unidentified disease outbreak started killing mainly women and children in a remote region.
Hableány ([ˈhɒblɛaːɲ]; Hungarian for ' Mermaid ') was a 27-metre (89 ft) river cruiser operated on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary.On the rainy night of May 29, 2019, at 9:05 pm the 135-metre (443 ft) Viking Sigyn collided with Hableány from behind under the Margaret Bridge near the Parliament Building. [2]
OSLO (Reuters) -A small leftwing environmentalist political party in Norway succeeded on Sunday in blocking plans to mine the sea bed at the bottom of the Arctic, by demanding the government scrap ...