The Cadore Viaduct is a road bridge in

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, in the southern Alps.

History

Design

The main span is held up by two 85m steel

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Construction

It was built by longitudinal launching, by Mazzi. It opened in 1985. SS 51 percorso

Structure

The bridge is north of the northern terminus of the Autostrada A27 at

Ponte nelle Alpi Ponte nelle Alpi (English: ''Bridge into the Alps'', Venetian: ''Pont'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Belluno in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about northeast of Belluno. Ponte nelle Alpi bord ...

(''Bridge into the Alps''). The road is the SS51 '' Strada statale di Alemagana'', maintained by

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, which to the north passes

Tre Cime di Lavaredo The Tre Cime di Lavaredo (; ), also called the Drei Zinnen (; ), are three distinctive battlement-like peaks, in the Sexten Dolomites of northeastern Italy. They are probably one of the best-known mountain groups in the Alps. The three peaks, f ...

. The route joins to become part of

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. It reaches

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near Innichen in

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, also known as

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol it, Trentino (man) it, Trentina (woman) or it, Altoatesino (man) it, Altoatesina (woman) or it, Sudtirolesegerman: Südtiroler (man)german: Südtirolerin (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = Official ...

. It enters Austria at

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. To the north is

Calalzo di Cadore Calalzo di Cadore is a municipality of 2,400 inhabitants of the province of Belluno, in the Italian region of Veneto. The name ''Calalzo'' derives from the Latin ''altus callis,'' meaning "high place."Wikipedia Italia, Calalzo di Cadore The geo ...

. The

Calalzo–Padua railway The Calalzo–Padua railway is a railway line in Veneto, Italy. The section from Camposampiero to Padua was opened in 1877 as a part of the Bassano–Padua railway. In 1886 it followed the section from Belluno to Camposampiero. The final secti ...

passes under the bridge. The former Dolomites Railway passed nearby to the north, around one mile away. The Slovenian capital of

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is eighty miles to the east.

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