Millau Viaduct (French: Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed viaduct spanning the Tarn River valley at Millau, southern France. Bridge by architect Norman Foster and British engineers Virlogeux bridge French designer Michel bridge. This is the highest bridge in the world, the height of the bridge, from the foot of the highest tower to the top of poles P2 is 343m cable-stayed, so high that the bridge is located above the clouds hovering in the Tarn valley, width 2, 5km, 250m deep. This bridge is part of a road axis A75-A71 from Paris to Béziers. Bridge was started in October 2001 and inaugurated on December 14, 2004, to traffic ceremony was held two days later. The bridge construction is extremely difficult and complicated, engineers and workers battling the elements as landslides, high winds over 130km / h and large storms. Even the author of bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux gushed "when I released the first design of the bridge to the authorities, they thought I was crazy." Millau is not only the world's tallest tree, but the construction of bridge was unlike any previous bridge. It is the first cable-stayed bridge has a main span cable with more customers instead of just a single span cable-stayed bridge as before.
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