Aleksotas Bridge In Kaunas
Aleksotas Bridge, original of this brigde is Vytautas the Great Bridge before 1930 and from 1940 until 2008, crosses Nemunas River to connect Aleksotas and Kaunas Old Town in Lithuania. Aleksotas Bridge length exceeds 256 meters, width 16 meters. The tender for building the bridge was arranged back in 1927. After several stages of competition Copenhagen based engineers won the right to built the bridge. Finally, in 1930 January 11 bridge was completed. The bridge was named after Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great after its construction.
During World War II bridge was blasted away. Strategic importance of the city Kaunas resulted, that bridge was rebuilt in 1948. In 2005 bridge undergone major reconstruction.
History of Vytautas the Great Bridge
Hi, my name is Skirmantas. I was born in the beautiful city of Kaunas in Lithuania. I am still living in it. I am 26 this year. Well I was thinking that I could use a blog to write about crazy life that I have. And here I am writing this blog. I will write things that could be interesting to someone or it could be that no one will going to read it. Well this is my life and this is how it goes. Enjoy!
