The Solidarity Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge

Bridge

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 over the Vistula River in Płock, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, being in a sequence of two national roads

National roads in Poland

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: national road no. 60 and national road no. 62.

History

The main span

SPAN

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 of the Solidarity Bridge is 375 metres long. The main span is one of the longest in the world among cable staeyd bridges with cables located in single plane. At the same time, it is the longest span in the world among cable stayed bridges with a fixed-in deck pylon

Tower

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The main span of the Solidarity Bridge is a longest span in Poland and this part Europe

Europe

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The Solidarity Bridge in Płock used to be the largest and longest cable-stayed bridge in Poland until the construction of the Rędziński Bridge

Rędziński Bridge

The Rędziński Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Oder river in Wrocław, Poland. As a section of the A8 motorway bypassing the center of Wroclaw, the bridge links both sections of the route across the Oder, providing connections to the A4 motorway to the south, and to the future sections...

 in Wrocław in 2011.

The Solidarity Bridge was built from July

July

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 2002 till October

October

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 2007 and opened October 13, 2007.

Scheme of the Solidarity Bridge in Płock