Leonardo's Bridge
In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci produced a drawing of a single-span 240-metre (790 ft) bridge over the Horn as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bayezid II. The vision was resurrected in 2001, when a small footbridge of Leonardo's design was constructed near Ås in Norway.
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