Tiszavirag bridge

Tiszavirag hid is a pedestrian and bike owner bridge in Szolnok, Hungary at the Tisza river. The challenge was completed below the program referred to as „Szolnok, the Capital of Tisza”. The European Union supported the HUF 5 billion undertaking by 1.5 billion forint, of which 2 billion forints went to the bridge and the brand new decorative rectangular at the northern quit of the bridge, which turned into assigned to Közgép Zrt. The bridge changed into intended to be the new landmark of the county town. The bridge has a shape akin to a mayfly or "tiszavirag" in Hungarian. The bridge weighs 550 lots and is 444 meters lengthy, which makes it the longest pedestrian bridge in Central Europe. It turned into formally inaugurated on 21 January 2011.

The foundation stone of the bridge become laid on August 9, 2009. The basis stone changed into in truth a time pill which contained no longer best that day's newspapers and some CDs but additionally the short messages of the passers-through. Groundwork started out on the end of September 2009.