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IMPOSSIBLE BRIDGES – GREECE

This 3-part series looks at some of the world’s most amazing bridges, tall enough to straddle huge cargo ships and capable of surviving earthquakes and typhoon-force winds.

Impossible Bridges – Greece
In Greece, the Rion-Antirion Bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, with a continuously suspended deck of over two kilometres. The challenges of building a bridge across the Strait of Corinth stumped architects for over a century. Built directly over a seismic fault line, find out how designers and engineers overcame nature's worst to make Greece whole again.
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