France unveils a bridge hailed as 'miracle of equilibrium'
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MILLAU, France -- President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge yesterday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees, and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees
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PARIS -- Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe, and limitless energy. A multinational pact signed yesterday may bring that dream a step closer to reality.
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The worldâs tallest bridge was opened in the Tarn Valley, France, yesterday and has been hailed as both a monumental work of art and an unrivalled technological achievement.
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The EU's historic deal with Turkey to open entry talks with the vast Muslim country was hailed by supporters as a bridge builder between Europe and the Islamic world.
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France will unveil one of its most dazzling architectural showcases, the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, next week after a restoration that has brought fresh life to colors buried for years under grime.
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French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Tuesday the world's tallest bridge, the viaduct of Millau of 270 meters above ground.
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Partnership with Dassault Systemes on free online application will enable people to build and share virtual 3D structures.
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French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Tuesday the world&#39;s tallest bridge, the viaductof Millau of 270 meters above ground.
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It's a rare construction site that merits a tourist visit, but a romantic bridge rising above a beautiful stretch of the Danube River is a special exception.
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Eighty years ago the Artouste train in the French Pyrenees transported workers and materiel to build a dam at 2000 meters (6500 feet) altitude, but today it ferries tourists for a sometimes hair-raising ride along one of Europe's highest rail lines.
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Some called it a bridge to the future. Others called it the bridge to nowhere.
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A new bridge is to be built across the Firth of Forth, west of the existing suspension road crossing.
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Taller than the Eiffel Tower and longer than the Champs Elysee, the Millau viaduct was today opened by President Jacques Chirac to acclaim as marvel of art and architecture.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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The bridge, in southern France, is a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists nearly 300m above the valley of the Tarn River.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s highest bridge Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees