2005: Montenegro’s Capital City of Podgorica Gets a New Bridge

July 13, 2005

The Millennium Bridge in Podgorica, the capital and largest city of southeastern Europe’s country of Montenegro, was officially opened to traffic. The inauguration of this cable-stayed bridge, which crosses the Morača river, took place on Montenegro’s National Day. It was on that date in 1878 that representatives on behalf of the major European powers at the time signed the Treaty of Berlin, which formally recognized the independence of Montenegro.

Measuring 568 feet (173 meters) in length, the Millennium Bridge was designed by Marjan Pipenbaher (born in 1957), a structural engineer at the Slovenian company Ponting Bridges; and Mladen Ulićević (also born in 1957), a civil engineering professor at the University of Montenegro.

The Millennium Bridge carries two lanes for motor vehicles and a pedestrian walkway in each direction. In the time since this bridge was opened, it has become one of Podgorica’s most prominent landmarks.

Photo Credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Uspn) – licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license at  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

For more information on the Millennium Bridge in Podgorica, please check out  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge_(Podgorica)