MILLAU, France--You first see it from miles away. And after an afternoon spent driving toward it and weeks of planning a visit here, it's fair to wonder if it will live up to expectations. And there ...

Great bridges are the truest form of public art, icons of functional elegance meant to be used as well as admired. Few contemporary structures fulfill this dual mandate as well as the Millau Viaduct, ...

The Millau Viaduct in southern France remains one of the most famous tall bridges in the world. Completed in 2004, it set a benchmark for modern bridge engineering, with its highest pylon rising 343 ...

MILLAU -- The Larzac, a limestone plateau that divides the western French Mediterranean coastal plain from the mountains to the north, has been a haven for hippies and eccentrics since the 1960s. This ...

The Millau viaduct, newly inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac, is now the world's tallest road bridge. It stands high above the Tarn valley in France's Massif Central mountains, as seen in this 11 ...

They’re a means to an end: bridges are fundamentally a way to get from point A to point B. But as designs get bigger and bolder, bridges have also become destinations in their own right — as ...

Piercing the sky above the verdant hills of southern France, a roadway bridge hailed as the tallest in the world was officially inaugurated Tuesday. Celebrated as a work of art and an object of French ...