Stavanger City Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge

Cable-stayed bridge

A cable-stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more columns , with cables supporting the bridge deck....

 with one tower that crosses Strømsteinsundet from the centre of Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 to Grasholmen

Grasholmen

Grasholmen is an island located in the neighborhood Buøy in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.It is connected to mainland Stavanger via the Stavanger City Bridge....

 and Sølyst

Sølyst

Sølyst is an island located in the neighborhood Buøy in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.It is connected to mainland Stavanger via the island Grasholmen and Stavanger City Bridge....

 in the borough Hundvåg

Hundvåg

Hundvåg is an island and borough of the city of Stavanger, Norway.In addition to the island Hundvåg, other islands are Sølyst, Grasholmen, Engøy, Buøy, Bjørnøy, Roaldsøy and Ormøy...

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The bridge is 1067 metres long, the main span is 185 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 26 metres. The bridge has 24 spans.

Stavanger City Bridge was the first larger cable-stayed bridge in Norway. It was opened in 1978.

External links

• http://home.no.net/lotsberg/data/norway/bru.html