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Le Viaduc de Millau
A world record for height, peaking at 343 metres (taller than the Eiffel Tower), 2,460 metres long, the Viaduct brushes the Tarn valley at only 9 points.
Designed by the French engineer Michel Virlogeux and drawn by the English architect Lord Norman Foster, it fits perfectly into a grandiose and intact natural landscape: a very finely drawn steel deck describing a slight curve, supported by stays, gives it the look of a sailing boat, all resting on 7 very slender piers.
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