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The construction works were carried out by Walter Bau AG and Konstruktor, Split. [2] Construction was completed in April 2002, and the bridge was officially opened on May 21, 2002. The bridge construction costs were reportedly 252 million Croatian kuna (c. US$31 million) making Franjo Tuđman Bridge the most expensive bridge in Croatia.
The Pelješac Bridge (Croatian: Pelješki most, pronounced [pěʎeʃkiː môːst]) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia.The bridge provides a fixed link from the southeastern Croatian semi-exclave to the rest of the country while bypassing Bosnia and Herzegovina's short coastal strip at Neum.
Proceedings fib Symposium in Dubrovnik Croatia. FIB - Féd. Int. du Béton. ISBN 978-953-95428-3-0. Jure Radić, Zlatko Šavor & Alex Kindij (10–11 October 2005). Innovations in Concrete Arch Bridge Design. Fourth International Conference on Current and Future Trends in Bridge Design, Construction and Maintenance.
Stari Most (lit. ' Old Bridge '), also known as Mostar Bridge, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.It crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city, which is named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the Stari Most during the Ottoman era. [1]
The present shape of the walls was designed following a basic city plan dating back to 1292, when the port city was rebuilt following a fire, [4] when Dubrovnik was under the Republic of Venice; [13] the peak of construction lasted from the beginning of the 15th century until the latter half of the 16th century during the age of the independent ...
The construction of 2.4-kilometre-long Pelješac Bridge, the biggest infrastructure project in Croatia connects the two halves of Dubrovnik-Neretva County and shortens the route from the West to the Pelješac peninsula and the islands of Korčula and Lastovo by more than 32 km.
East of Dubrovnik the road passes by Dubrovnik Airport and reaches the border with Montenegro at the Karasovići border crossing. [1] The D8 is the longest state road in Croatia at 643.1 km (399.6 mi). Following the rerouting over the Pelješac bridge, the length extended by 4.5 km (2.8 mi).
The Old Bridge was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1557 to replace an older wooden suspension bridge. Construction began in 1557 and took nine years: according to the inscription the bridge was completed in 974 AH , corresponding to the period between 19 July 1566 and 7 July 1567.