Key facts
- Coordinates
- 43°53′22″N 26°0′19″E / 43.88944°N 26.00528°E / 43.88944; 26.00528
- Carries
- Two lanes of road and railway traffic, pedestrians
- Crosses
- Danube
- Locale
- Between Giurgiu , Romania and Ruse , Bulgaria , at river kilometre 488.70
- Other name
- Friendship Bridge
- Design
- Truss bridge
- Total length
- 2,223 m (7,293 ft)
- Clearance below
- 30 m (98 ft)
- Designer
- V. Andreev, N. Rudomazin, Georgi Ovcharov (decoration)
- Opened
- 20 June 1954
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- footbridge
- Part of
- Bulgaria–Romania border
- Named after
- Danube
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Located in
- Giurgiu
- Material used
- steel
- Image
- Most-druschba.jpg
- Length
- 2224
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- Commons category
- Friendship Bridge (Danube)
- crosses
- Danube
- number of spans
- 37
- date of official opening
- 1954-06-20
- clearance
- 24
- next crossing upstream
- New Europe Bridge
- next crossing downstream
- Anghel Saligny Bridge
- carries thoroughfare
- railway line
- inception
- 1895-06-20
- different from
- Friendship Bridge
- distance from river mouth
- 489
- longest span
- 160
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Encyclopedic overview
The Danube Bridge (also known as the Friendship Bridge; Bulgarian: Мост на дружбата, Most na druzhbata or, more commonly, Дунав мост, Dunav most; Romanian: Podul Prieteniei or Podul de la Giurgiu) is a steel truss bridge over the Danube River connecting the Bulgarian bank to the south with the Romanian bank to the north and the cities of Ruse and Giurgiu respectively. It is one of only two bridges connecting Romania and Bulgaria, the other one being the New Europe Bridge between the cities of Vidin and Calafat.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danube Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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