Would you like to visit one of the oldest and most industrial cities of Scandinavia? It's the city of Malmo which has an amazingly photogenic tower named Turning Torso and the longest bridge in Europe.
Malmo is the third largest city in Sweden. The city is also perceived as gates to Denmark. It was founded in the 13th century and was the territory of Denmark for a long period of time. One can leave the car on a free parking lot and go to
Copenhagen by railway. The selling ticket machine will give you two options of how to travel to Denmark. It can be either over the bridge (the shortest way) or by ferry (the longest way).
The Oresund Bridge is a combined twin-track railway and dual carriageway bridge-tunnel across the Oresund strait. The bridge connects Sweden and Denmark, and is the longest road and rail bridge in Europe.
Its length accounts for 7845 meters and covers half a distance between Sweden and the Danish island Amager. The border between the two countries lies 5.3 km away from the Swedish coast.
The bridge weighs 82000 tons, carries two railway lines and 4 traffic areas across the horizontal bar located along the whole length of the bridge. Every 140 m the bar is supported with concrete mounts. Two couples of freely standing counterweight towers which are 204 m high enable easy navigation through the main corridor which is 57 m high. Major part of vessels go through the strait under the tunnel. A cable-stayed structure was chosen to ensure necessary stiffness to take transport of heavy loads. The bridge is connected with a tunnel on the Peberholm (Pepper) island. The name was chosen to accompany the adjacent natural island Saltholm (Salt). The Danes also turned the Peberholm into reserved area. The island that appeared in the result of bridge and tunnel construction, is 4 km long and 500 meters wide.
The artificial island Peberholm and artificial peninsula Kastrup which is the closest inhabited part of Denmark are connected through the Drodgen tunnel.
3510 meters of the tunnel lie underwater. It is made of 20 reinforced concrete segments and is united in a channel made in the sea bottom. 2 tubes of the tunnel support railway lines whereas the other 2 carry auto-roads. The fifth tube is intended for use in case of emergency.
Tubes are located close to one another. The tunnel but not the other part of the bridge eliminates obstacles for planes from the adjacent airport and ensures free passage for vessels. The view of the bridge and the Poberholm island. Here the tunnel that leads from Copenhagen starts.
The Turning Torso skyscraper is Malmo's visit card. A view from the window of a train moving along the bridge over the Oresund strait.
The Turning Torso is the tallest skyscraper in Sweden and the Nordic countries. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005. The tower reaches a height of 190 meters (623 feet) with 54 stories. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in Scandinavia, the tallest residential building in the EU and the second tallest residential building in Europe, after the 264‑meter (866 ft) Triumph Palace in Moscow.
Art gallery.
This skyscraper is a regular residential house and is not open for public. This fact was stated on a table at the entrance though according to Wiki, such visits can be possible in summer.
If you are determined to climb the Torso roof, become a sky-diver. Thus, on August 18, 2006 the Australian sky-diver Felix Baumgartner jumped out of the helicopter and landed right onto the roof of the building. After that he jumped from the skyscraper and landed successfully again.
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