Record-breaking road bridges: longest, tallest, most expensive, longest span

Driving over them without paying particular attention, they seem like normal stretches of roadway, but road bridges often represent masterpieces of engineering . Complex and expensive to design, build and maintain safely, they allow vehicular traffic to cross particularly hostile stretches of territory, crossing rivers, seas or even villages and entire valleys. There are various types, from the classic arch or box-beam structures to the more intricate ones, cantilevered, suspended, cable-stayed or even mobile . In the following files we will discover the road bridges that, due to their particular characteristics, have won a world record, either absolute or relative to their category.