THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Travel magazine has released its list of the most spectacular bridges in the world.
Though none of Ireland’s lovely bridges made it onto the list this year, it includes some impressive sights including the Die Rakotzbrücke in Kromlau, Germany and the famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
These are some of National Geographic Travel’s World’s Most Spectacular Bridges for 2018:
Commissioned by Friedrich Hermann Rötschke in 1860, Rakotzbrücke’s perfect parabola and basalt spires make it a legendary “devil’s bridge”.
Completed in 2004, Heatherwick Studio’s Rolling Bridge provides access to the Grand Union Canal in London’s Paddington Basin.
Q’eswachaka, one of the last surviving Inca rope bridges, has spanned 124 feet across the Akpurimac canyon for more than 500 years.
At 1,620 feet long, the Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in Zermatt is the longest suspension footbridge in the world.
Over three million vehicles cross San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge every month.
A traditional dingbu bridge, made of cut and sunken stones, stretches across the Tuojiang River in China’s Phoenix Ancient Town.
The name gives it all away. The Living Root Bridge is made from living, grounded tree roots so that it is not washed away by floods.
Visitors can take a gondola ride underneath the romantic Bridge of Sighs, or explore the palace inside.
There is a small mention in the accompanying article of Dublin’s Samuel Beckett bridge, as author Caitlin Etherton points out that all of these structures serve the same purpose – “giving every type of traveller an opportunity to connect and explore”.
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