The Millennium Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Morača river in

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History

The bridge was designed by Marjan Pipenbaher from the Slovenian company Ponting Bridges and Mladen Ulićević, a professor at Faculty of Civil Engineering in Podgorica. It was built by the

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n company ''Primorje'', and opened on 13 July 2005, Montenegro's National Day. It quickly became one of the city's most prominent landmarks. The bridge is 173 metres long, and the pylon soars 57 m above the roadbed. Twelve cables support the roadway deck, while twenty-four more are attached to the counterweights, creating an imposing image. The construction of the bridge began in 2005, and the building cost was approximately 7 million

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s. The roadway carries two lanes of traffic and a pedestrian walkway in each direction. The bridge connects the ''Boulevard of Ivan Crnojević'' in the city centre and ''July 13 street'' in the new part of city, thus relieving the other congested bridges connecting the city center with the densely populated districts over the Morača river. File:Millenium Bridge Podgorica.jpg, Bridge guys File:Night illumination of Millenium Bridge in Podgorica.jpg, Night illumination Moj grad - panoramio.jpg, View of Millennium bridge and Podgorica

References

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