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VonSkippy
March 7th, 2008 at
4:19 am
Darn, I told my wife we should have bought the Brooklyn Bridge when that one nice NY gentlemen offered to sell it to us, and at a surprisingly low price.
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DB
March 7th, 2008 at
4:43 am
Oh heck yes, covered bridges! Ohio rocks. ;D We’ve got some pretty neat ones.
Also, that first bridge is gorgeous.
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ju
March 7th, 2008 at
4:58 am
And Rialto Bridge ?
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Rohin
March 7th, 2008 at
6:04 am
You got off lucky there VonSkippy, I don’t think it’s all that attractive. Spend your money on something else, like a state or small country.
I quite like this one: http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TES1318.jpg and http://www.travel-images.com/switz167.jpg. It’s the Chapel Bridge in Lucerne, Switzerland, which is also very pretty on the inside.
As for Tower Bridge…some say it’s haunted.
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March 7th, 2008 at
6:06 am
They are very impressive, especially the barn style ones.
The only problem is that the water never looks that good in real life. Especially the Italian bridges….unfortunately.
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Brent
March 7th, 2008 at
6:20 am
Speaking of “local pride”; here’s the “only five-span stone bridge in North America”, located in the quiet village of Pakenham, Ontario, a few miles from where I live:
http://en.structurae.de/photos/index.cfm?JS=37088
I guess it ain’t world-class, but we like it
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Momotsuki
March 7th, 2008 at
7:06 am
No Sydney Harbor Bridge?
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Pol x
March 7th, 2008 at
7:08 am
Covered bridges.
Maybe you have to grow up with them to “get it” as it were, but I just can not see the sense in them.
In fact I find them ugly and they seem mean in their outlook.
It’s a small barn on a bridge that denies all people the simple enjoyment of looking down on the water, hell you can’t even play pooh sticks on one.
Also why cover a bridge?
If it’s raining on one side it’ll be raining on the other surely.
It’s not even like you could park up there, it’s a road so people will always need free passage.
Oh and tower Bridge is a Bascule Bridge.
I say that purely for the enjoyment of saying Bascule…BASCULE.
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Skipweasel
March 7th, 2008 at
7:19 am
The Ironbridge reflection doesn’t always make a perfect circle - a few weeks ago the Severn was almost up to the white cottage in the upper photo, and that wasn’t the highest I’ve seen it.
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Shervin
March 7th, 2008 at
8:36 am
Represent! my home town of Isfahan, Iran has other bridges just as amazing as khajoo.
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Jimbo
March 7th, 2008 at
8:54 am
Don’t forget about the Forth bridge in Edinburgh…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge_(railway)
…just don’t ask what happened to the first three.
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Counselor
March 7th, 2008 at
9:22 am
If you’re wanting covered bridges, you can’t forget Parke County Indiana. They have over 30 covered bridges within the one county and all are beautiful. They even have the Covered Bridge Festival in the fall.
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Mindpimp
March 7th, 2008 at
10:08 am
I’m surprised the bridge of sighs in oxford isn’t included, I consider it extremely pretty.
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DUDE!
March 7th, 2008 at
10:21 am
THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IS NUMBER 1?!?!?!?!?!? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
You guys really do bend over and smell your own farts. -
gabriel amadeus
March 7th, 2008 at
11:23 am
The St John’s Bridge in Portland, OR is quite nice too:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stjohnsbridge/pool/12355556@N00/ -
redshift9
March 7th, 2008 at
11:27 am
My favorite photo of the Brooklyn bridge is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/janekrat/2283169871/
I’d never heard of China’s “wind and rain” bridges before, either. They’re beautiful, and building a wooden bridge without using nails must take a tremendous amount of skill. I’m impressed.
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Geekazoid
March 7th, 2008 at
11:31 am
Golden Gate Bridge rocks. I can’t think of a more iconic structure in pop culture and symbolism than the GGB. It’s routinely featured in movies and such.
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Niftyniall
March 7th, 2008 at
11:51 am
B&W film of the opening of the;
Golden Gate Bridge Opening (1936) http://www.archive.org/details/GoldenGa1936 -
Limey
March 7th, 2008 at
12:14 pm
Oh man - my feelings are hurt by the omission of the Verrazano! Purposfully built to be longer than the Golden Gate (making it the longest suspension bridge in the world at that time), it offers some incredible views and looks just lovely against the night sky. And also, there’s the Bayonne Bridge - voted “Most Beautiful Structure of Steel” in 1931. It was built to be a whopping two feet longer than the Sydney Arch Bridge, making it the longest steel arch bridge in the world.
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Dan
March 7th, 2008 at
12:21 pm
Covered bridges.
Maybe you have to grow up with them to “get it” as it were, but I just can not see the sense in them.
They did make sense at the time. The roof protected the wooden span from the weather. And (so it’s said) horses would be less likely to be spooked when crossing a river if they couldn’t see over the edge.
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Tom
March 7th, 2008 at
12:25 pm
Yeah, the Wind and Rain Bridge beats them all in my book. Perhaps followed by Kahju. The others are neat, or added only to placate the American’s collective ego.
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nick
March 7th, 2008 at
12:29 pm
Check out the Royal Gorge Bridge in CO. It’s the highest suspension bridge in the world. It’s scary as hell, about 1200 feet above the canyon floor. It’s also extremely rickety and you can feel it blowing in the wind. I hated every moment I was there.
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Martijn
March 7th, 2008 at
12:30 pm
Nice post but what a horrible HDR image of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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alison
March 7th, 2008 at
12:33 pm
The Verrazano’s pretty to drive over, with the tall arches and a great view of the skyline, but it’s no match for the fantastic walk over the Brooklyn Bridge!
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Jonathan LaRocca
March 7th, 2008 at
12:45 pm
uhh… sydney harbor bridge… come on!
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Luc
March 7th, 2008 at
1:15 pm
You simply forgot the most beaufiful bridge ever :
http://www.hotel-biney.com/joomla/images/stories/millau_viaduc.jpg
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Rosi
March 7th, 2008 at
2:35 pm
YAY for bridges. I’ve personally seen four (and a half) of those bridges:
1. Ironbridge (and the awesome replica Victorian town near it)
2. The Pont du Gard
3. Brooklyn Bridge
4. Tower BridgeThe half is that there’s an exact replica of the bridge of sighs built over the river outside the University of Cambridge. Apparently this one isn’t where people sigh on the way to their death, but where students sigh on the way to exams ^_^
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NiteWhite
March 7th, 2008 at
2:56 pm
Total suicides for these 10 bridges: 264 million people.
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MrSandman
March 7th, 2008 at
4:23 pm
Man, what a racist post.
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?????
March 7th, 2008 at
9:36 pm
Some bridges in Asia you neglect it, like the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo ???????????and Ponte de Amizade in Macau.
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Pancake
March 8th, 2008 at
1:26 am
The Cooper River Bridge is a beauty, and also the longest bridge of it’s kind in the Americas.
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Mio Destino
March 8th, 2008 at
2:19 am
I knew some of the bridges but some came as a bit of a pleasant surprise to me. Great article! well researched!
Julie
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miborovsky
March 8th, 2008 at
2:22 am
For #4, ALL classical Chinese architecture are built without nails, this bridge is nothing special in that regard.
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Maria John
March 8th, 2008 at
2:22 am
Great collection of bridges. I love to see this. Thanks for sharing.
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dhel castillo
March 8th, 2008 at
2:47 am
its so great……. i want to see but i can’t……
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Rebecca
March 8th, 2008 at
3:12 am
I liked the 2nd one too much.
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jojoth
March 8th, 2008 at
3:54 am
A bridge that should be in the top ten is the extremely high and fantastically beautiful French bridge near Millau (South of FRance)
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Alma Oljaca
March 8th, 2008 at
3:59 am
All these bridges are beautifull. But have you ever heard about 500 years old bridge destroid in Bosnian war 1992 and rebuilt 1997 Exactly the same see some info. it is worth reading about Old Bridge in Mostar Bosnia ,bealive me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_most -
Ken
March 8th, 2008 at
4:17 am
I’m surprised to see no mention of Calatrava and his beautiful brdiges - part engineering, part sculpture. The classic design is Puente del Alamillo in Seville but as the author of the piece seems to prefer American bridges I can propose the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay, California. In the end there are too many beautiful bridges in the world to make a top ten but thanks for the pointers on here - some new ones to me.
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Alex
March 8th, 2008 at
4:29 am
Yes - I agree that the Millau Viaduct is fantastic (I even said so at the end of the article), but the list is all about “old school” bridges
Thank you for the bridge suggestions! Keep ‘em coming - some of them are definitely beautiful.
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B-Rad
March 8th, 2008 at
5:25 am
What about the world longest covered bridge in Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada?
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Kevitivity
March 8th, 2008 at
5:35 am
The Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland should be on this list.
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Ozh
March 8th, 2008 at
5:47 am
A few uninteresting ones here, nice collection however.
I think this one is missing: the pink Bridge of Garabit, by Gustave Eiffel -
Bob and Ezra
March 8th, 2008 at
6:24 am
Leonardo Da Vinci designed this bridge, finally built 500 years after it’s inception. Check it out here: http://www.vebjorn-sand.com/thebridge.htm
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Zany
March 8th, 2008 at
6:48 am
WOW’ish ….. you should also check [spam deleted] (updated daily)
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Loc
March 8th, 2008 at
7:31 am
To restate ken’s comment
Calatrava’s Allamilo bridge or the Campo Volantin?
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Emir
March 8th, 2008 at
10:03 am
No offense, but I’m hard-pressed to see beauty in most of these. With notable couple of exceptions, I’d say they’re decisively ugly!
To reiterate, how about Stari Most in Mostar?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/venichka/76710613/El Alamillo Bridge, Gehry’s built a little bridge crossing the highway as part of the millennium park that’s a little gem, etc…
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Modesty
March 8th, 2008 at
10:08 am
All these bridges are monumental, and beautiful. To see how a small and humble one could be beautiful in its austerity, please search google images for “stari most mostar” (”stari most” = “old bridge”, and Mostar is a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, named after the bridge.) The bridge was built by the 16th century Ottoman empire, destroyed during the war in early 1990, and reconstructed by UNESCO in 2004.
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Jon T
March 8th, 2008 at
10:54 am
Surely the Millau viaduct in France has to be on this list???
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Mika Cooper
March 8th, 2008 at
10:55 am
zakim bunker hill bridge in boston
http://liteship.net/images/Zakim_Bridge_AndyRyan.jpg -
Kelly Cheng
March 8th, 2008 at
11:16 am
Alex, though I appreciate my picture being used for a good article, a request for permission is a matter of courtesy. I do not enable my pictures for blogging on Flickr and this is an “All rights reserved” picture. Please respect it, and the rest of the pictures featured in your blog.
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Kelly Cheng
March 8th, 2008 at
11:23 am
May I also add that the night shot you used is NOT Khaju Bridge. It is another bridge in Esfahan called Si-o-Se Pol. Please correct the mistake.
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JohnDoe
March 8th, 2008 at
12:46 pm
The Szechenyi Chain bridge is missing from the list where the Golden Gate is No.1.?!?! LOL
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Nathan
March 8th, 2008 at
2:03 pm
Sydney harbour bridge??
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Anirban
March 8th, 2008 at
2:06 pm
No mention of the World’s busiest bridge - the Howrah bridge??
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DonkeyKing
March 8th, 2008 at
2:06 pm
smelting with coke for the first time,,,, wow that is revolutionary
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Paco
March 8th, 2008 at
2:08 pm
Hi:
There is a beatiful bridge in my city called ‘puente del alamillo’ in Seville, Spain
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Luci
March 8th, 2008 at
2:45 pm
Ashtabula County, OH has 16 covered bridges, http://www.coveredbridgefestival.org/bridges.htm
soon to be 17 with the addition of what will be the longest covered bridge in the United States when it is completed, right around the corner from where I grew up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Ashtabula_County_Covered_BridgeAnd yes, you can play Pooh Sticks on many of them, as well as look down on the water.
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Luci
March 8th, 2008 at
2:54 pm
Oh! And how could I forget Covered Bridge Pizza?
The former Forman Road Covered Bridge is now part of two Covered Bridge Pizza restaurants in North Kingsville and Andover. The bridge was sold for $5.00, cut in half, dismantled, and rebuilt as the two restaurants.
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Alex
March 8th, 2008 at
3:02 pm
My apologies Kelly Cheng, I’ve replaced your photo with one tagged with Creative Commons.
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evan
March 8th, 2008 at
3:40 pm
charles bridge in purge should be in there
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Gellner
March 8th, 2008 at
4:24 pm
The Brooklyn Bridge…the Golden Gate?
Please.
Those are NOT beautiful bridges compared to the ones in Venice and China.
How lame and Amero-Centric.
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O Fortuna
March 8th, 2008 at
7:51 pm
It is generally not appreciated that bridge building was considered the peak of the technology of the beginning of the industrial revolution in America and Europe
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Tom Hylas
March 8th, 2008 at
8:09 pm
I would add Goethels Bridge, Staten Island, NY; Bear Mt. Bridge, below West Point, NY, on the Hudson River; and our George Washington Bridge linking NJ and uptown Manhattan. Verizonno Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, NY.
And the bridge that joins people who share their gifts of smiles and fellowship. God Bless All.
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Leandro Toledo
March 8th, 2008 at
11:22 pm
What about Rio-Niterói bridge? It’s a fantastic bridge!
If you have time, please look for it! -
Johnald_Chaffinch
March 9th, 2008 at
4:26 am
my home town (Hull)’s humber bridge :
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v141/189/19/512705484/n 512705484_171474_7557.jpg
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v141/189/19/512705484/n 512705484_171474_7557.jpg -
Senefen
March 9th, 2008 at
4:37 am
The Golden Gate bridge wasn’t that fantastic in my opinion. Sure it’s big but so is a lot of stuff now days. It just looks like a bridge to me, The Sydney Harbour bridge is the same colour.
Ponte Vecchio by constrast is beautiful. The street is filled with Gold and Silver smiths and it’s a great display of the beatuiful city of Florence. I’ve been there and loved it, Florence is the most Beautiful city I’ve seen.Tower Bridge also makes a good statement about London. Unlike London Bridge which is a big disappointment.
Also been to the bridge of sighs and I agree with you putting it here.
I disagree with the Brooklyn Bridge, It was the tallest suspension bridge 150 years ago, so what, there are longer and taller now right? Why that one and not the current longest? Also it is not partucually unique looking. -
vista bbs
March 9th, 2008 at
7:56 am
What about Rio-Niterói bridge? It’s a fantastic bridge!
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Peter Daams
March 9th, 2008 at
8:09 am
Ok, serious omissions for me are the Sydney Harbour Bridge (I mean really guys, how could you miss that?!), Mostar Bridge, the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, the Chapel Bridge in Lucerne and the Charles Bridge in Prague.
Other than that I guess it’s a nice list, although I agree it’s far too focussed on the US.
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Bransby
March 9th, 2008 at
11:19 am
Excellent article. Also worth a mention: Chester’s Eastgate Clock, positioned on a bridge across Eastgate Street, In Chester, Cheshire, UK. Apparently the second most photographed clock in the world.
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Bransby
March 9th, 2008 at
11:23 am
Also, Senesfan (post 67) seems to be suggesting that Sydney Harbour bridge is the same colour as the Golden Gate Bridge, it isn’t. Sydney Harbour bridge would have been a nice inclusion, or the Tyne bridge that it’s a copy of, both very beautiful in their own way.
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Cooldude678
March 9th, 2008 at
12:52 pm
Whazzup guys? I’ve seen 9 out of 10 of those bridges. The golden gate should be the king of all bridges. The Brooklyn bridge is O.K. for being #3 but GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE OWNES EVERY BRIDGE IN THE WORLD! ( This is breaking news)
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Cooldude678
March 9th, 2008 at
12:56 pm
Exactly, Peter Daams, (post 79) this dam list is too much focosed on the U.S. I mean, c’mon people, USA isn’t the only country that has good bridges. stupid list
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Cooldude678
March 9th, 2008 at
12:57 pm
Um, sorry about the wrong post #. I meant Peter Daams, (post 69) sry about that again.
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Chris
March 9th, 2008 at
2:12 pm
I’m disappointed you did not include any cable-stayed bridges. They are, in my opinion, some of the most beautiful bridges. I realize most bridges represented here are older, while cable-stayed bridges are much more recent. Among my favorite cable-stayed bridges are the JK in Brazil, the Vasco da Gama in Portugal, the Millau viaduct in France. Lovely bridges all.
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Kris
March 9th, 2008 at
3:55 pm
I’ve been to ponte vecchio and it looks twenty times more beautifull in real life.
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TT
March 9th, 2008 at
7:13 pm
Thank you, Gellner on #62, for pointing that out! I totally agree. They are functional bridges at their finest, but not beautiful bridges.
If they want to include those kinds of bridges, then there are so many of those around the world, how did the Golden Gate get to be #1 on THIS list?What about the Swilcan Bridge:
http://golf.visitscotland.com/repositories/images/headers/384144?view= Edit%20itemI think it’s one of the most beautiful bridges in the world with so much history.
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Med
March 9th, 2008 at
7:29 pm
Kyoto’s TOGETSUKYO Bridge:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Togetsukyo_in_Kyoto _Arashiyama.jpg
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ivana
March 10th, 2008 at
8:49 am
Charle’s bridge in Prague definitely deserves to be listed here. I think the one in Mostar is really beautiful, but my opinion on it could be really biased. Luzern - never too kitchy, never liked it.
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Matt
March 10th, 2008 at
10:02 am
I liked this article. However, I count two bridges on this list that are in the US (three if you want to include the covered bridges, but that is more North America than the US alone) and several people have claimed this article is too US-centric?!? Some of you people should take a flying leap off a bridge.
I really am enjoying everyones’ suggestions of other bridges, they are all great. -
olal
March 10th, 2008 at
11:51 am
how could you miss any of the bridges along &S Hwy 1 between Islamorado and Key West in Florida??
Most beautiful of all drives and bridges in the world.
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frumpiefox
March 10th, 2008 at
1:13 pm
The Golden Gate is not that great in person. There are far more beautiful bridges in California along Hwy 1, such as the Bixby Bridge and the Big Creek Bridge.
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Stormwater Bacteria
March 10th, 2008 at
1:41 pm
The Brooklyn Bridge is historic and iconic, but I don’t know about beautiful.
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Michelle:
March 10th, 2008 at
7:05 pm
Here’s another great bridge, in a beautiful setting: the New River bridge, depicted on West Virginia’s state quarter.
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Guillaume
March 10th, 2008 at
9:01 pm
It maybe not deserved to be in the list, but Jacques-Cartier bridge in Montreal is a beautiful bridge.
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Emperor Bob
March 11th, 2008 at
5:29 am
If you have to have a London bridge the Millennium Bridge ( often known as the Wobbly Bridge ) is far more beautiful than the Tower monstrosity .
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Offroader
March 11th, 2008 at
2:39 pm
I suggest you have look at the “Rio-Antirrio” bridge (just google the words “rio” and “antirrio” and wikipedia result comes first) which I think it’s worth mentioning.
Cheers.
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jojo
March 12th, 2008 at
6:05 pm
eee. . .
les falto el puente atirantado de saint piter jojo
se llama “puente de la unidad”
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Limeyre
March 13th, 2008 at
4:28 am
What an ethnocentric post. I was slightly disappointed.
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poonsin
March 14th, 2008 at
1:01 am
There are some small but beautiful bridge in Thailand. For example, Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke Bridge (Saphan Phut) http://www.flickr.com/photos/24208090@N06/2332733386/ which is surrounded with quite old city. The flower market is also there.
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Tom - Israel
March 14th, 2008 at
9:58 am
This prague bridge qualifies for number 1
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Ken Vogel
March 14th, 2008 at
11:25 am
Cable Stays?
Railroad Bridges?
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plamen
May 2nd, 2008 at
2:02 am
Hi all
there is one beautifull covered bridge in my hometown in Bulgaria
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Lovech_most.JPG -
al
May 2nd, 2008 at
8:09 am
Mackinac Bridge in Northern Michigan . 5 mile long bridge over the Straits of Mackinac One of the most beautiful bridges in the world http://www.mackinacbridge.org
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Stephani
May 2nd, 2008 at
8:51 am
The Golden Gate is special! San Francisco is special and so is Sausalito. That covers both ends of the bridge.
The Golden Gate is truly one of a kind. -
rick
May 6th, 2008 at
4:42 am
No Calatrava bridges?
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daveleo
May 14th, 2008 at
1:03 pm
very nice job…. you have no choice now …. must compile the 25 most beautiful bridges on one page ….. 10 ain’t enough !!
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Internet Slave
May 15th, 2008 at
7:26 am
Nice collection, although Im an Aussie and I have to ask where is the Sydney Harbor Bridge??
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dmac
June 2nd, 2008 at
8:28 pm
u forgot the karloff bridge in prague, czech republic
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