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The Salah Bey Viaduct (), is a
cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...
that spans the
gorge A canyon (; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tend ...
valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...
of the
Rhumel River The Rhumel River (Berbers, Tamazight: ⴰⵎⵒⵙⴰⴳⴰ, also Rhummel, Rummel, El-Kebîrl; Arabic: وادي الرمال), in antiquity, the river was called Ampsaga. is the largest river in the Constantine, Algeria, Constantine region of Alge ...
in
Constantine Constantine most often refers to: * Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Constantine I * Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria Constantine may also refer to: People * Constantine (name), a masculine g ...
, North East
Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
is named after Salah Bey whose rule of the city (1771-1792) was marked by major urban works, This viaduct is already considered the "eighth wonder" of the city with seven bridges. With a length of 1119m, the viaduct has a futuristic design, which modernized the urban configuration of the city.


Characteristics

The Salah Bey Viaduct is the eighth bridge in Constantine, the longest with 756 meters for the main viaduct and 4.3 kilometers, counting the connections and accesses. Resting on eight shrouds and culminating at 130 meters.


Connections

The viaduct is connected to the East–West Highway from three sides, from the south via the N5, from the east via the N3, and from the north via the Djebel El Ouahch area, where road widening works were undertaken and a tunnel was built to facilitate access.


Inauguration

The Salah Bey Viaduct was inaugurated on July 26, 2014, by Prime Minister
Abdelmalek Sellal Abdelmalek Sellal (; born 1 August 1948) is an Algerian politician who was Prime Minister of Algeria from 3 September 2012 to 13 March 2014 when he took a leave of office to support President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's re-election campaign and again ...
, named after the governor of Constantine Salah Bey from 1771 to 1792.


See also

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List of longest cable-stayed bridge spans This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main Span (engineering), span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a l ...
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List of bridges by length This is a list of the world's longest bridges that are more than in length sorted by their full length above land and water. The main span is the longest span without any ground support. ''Note: There is no standard way to measure the total ...
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List of highest bridges in the world This list of highest bridges includes bridges with a deck height of at least . The of a bridge is the maximum vertical drop distance between the bridge deck (the road, rail or other transport bed of a bridge) and the ground or water surface ben ...
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List of tallest bridges in the world This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least . The of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the br ...
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Pont de Normandie The ''Pont de Normandie'' () is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in Normandy, northern France. Its total length is – between the two piers. It is also the last bridge to cross the Seine before ...
* Baluarte Bridge *
Sidi Rached Viaduct The Sidi Rached Viaduct (), The Sidi Rached bridge is a road viaduct that crosses the Rhummel gorges and connects the Coudiat district (city center) to Constantine Train station. It was built in Constantine in French Algeria, between 1908 and 1912, ...
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Bab El Kantra Bridge Bab El Kantra Bridge is one of eight famous high-level bridges that cross the Rhumel River gorge in Constantine, Algeria. The Kantara bridge is the oldest and has taken several different forms over the years: from a 1792 Ottoman architecture, Ott ...
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Sidi M'Cid Bridge Sidi M'Cid Bridge is a suspension bridge across the Rhumel River in Constantine, Algeria. It was opened to traffic in April 1912 and until 1929 was the highest bridge in the world at . The bridge was designed by French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin ...
* Mellah Slimane Bridge


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* {{Public infrastructure topics Cable-stayed bridges in Algeria High-tech architecture Viaducts in Algeria Landmarks in Algeria Buildings and structures in Constantine Province Transport in Constantine, Algeria Bridges completed in 2014 Bridges in Constantine, Algeria 21st-century architecture in Algeria