Don’t look down: Portugal opens world’s longest suspension footbridge
By AFP
09 May 2021 |
10:38 am
Portugal opens the longest suspended pedestrian bridge in the world in Arouca. The bridge hangs on heavy steel cables strung between V-shaped concrete towers and runs 516 metres (1700 feet) across a canyon, at a height of 175 metres.
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