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Charilaos Trikoupis was a 19th-century prime minister of Greece who suggested building a bridge in the current location, but Greece's finances at the time didn't permit its construction. The bridge was planned in the mid-1990s and was built by a French-Greek consortium led by the French group Vinci SA which includes the Greek companies Hellenic ...
Another project that Trikoupis envisioned during that period was a bridge to connect the cities of Rio and Antirrio across the Gulf of Corinth. The bridge was beyond the technical and financial abilities of the young Kingdom at that time; construction began more than a century later.
Construction of the Rio–Antirrio bridge, the world's longest fully suspended cable-stayed bridge, began in 1998, more than 100 years after a first proposal by then-prime minister Charilaos Trikoupis. The bridge was inaugurated on 7 August 2004, a week before the opening of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Category: Charilaos Trikoupis. 1 language. ... Rio–Antirrio Bridge; T. Treaty of London (1864) This page was last edited on 26 October 2024, at 00:01 ...
Rio–Antirrio Bridge: ... "Bridge Engineering in Greece". In CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (ed.). Handbook of International Bridge Engineering.
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