On Channel 5 TV on Monday 23 January 2006 at 8.00pm a new series of "Megastructures" begins, featuring one of the most impressive things we saw in 2005 - Millau Bridge (Viaduc de Millau).
"Imagine building a series of Eiffel towers, then slinging a four-lane highway between them, all the way across one of the deepest valleys in France. This is the Millau Viaduct - the tallest bridge in the world. Besides being almost a third taller than any other bridge on the planet, this incredible engineering marvel is a viaduct - a bridge spanning across an entire valley - that stretches from plateau to plateau in a long gracious curve". at Millau (12 Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees).
Now part of the A75 autoroute from Clermont-Ferrand (63 Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne) to Beziers (34 Herault, Languedoc)
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