Stone Bridge ( et, Kivisild) was a bridge in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast o ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

. The bridge was opened on 16 September 1784. The bridge was built on the orders of Empress

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. The bridge was destroyed during WWII in 1941. Today,

Kaarsild Kaarsild ('Arch Bridge') is a pedestrian bridge in Tartu, Estonia. The bridge connects the city's centre and the Ülejõe, Tartu, Ülejõe District. The bridge was built in 1957–1959 on the site of the former Stone Bridge (Estonia), Stone Bri ...

stands where the bridge used to be. There are plans to restore the bridge to its original glory.The Kivisild stone bridge will rise again.
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