One of the most
important tourist attractions in Ahwaz is its bridges. Today, there are eight
bridges over Karun. The first bridge, which is called black bridge, is for
train's crossing. Among these bridges, the first bridge (suspension bridge) and
the seventh bridge have doubled the city's beauty because of their unique style
of architecture and design. The white
bridge or the suspension bridge is one of the most beautiful bridges of Ahwaz
built by a German family on the beautiful river of Karun. German Engineers started to build this bridge
and worked up to the level of installing one of the arcs, but the British took
back the supplies and instruments, which they offered the bridge builder at
first. This action made the bridge builder sick and caused his death, but after
a while, his wife started to install the second arc on the bridge by using the
simplest tools and in this way, she completed the bridge. White Bridge of Ahwaz is the fourth
cantilever bridge of the world and the first cantilever bridge of Iran and is
one of the eight bridges established on Karun River in Ahwaz city and it
connects two parts of this city together This bridge was registered in November
17th, 1999 as one of Iran’s national relics.
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