Bridges, Bridges, Bridges! On Stamps

Indonesia
Inauguration of Suramadu Bridge
June 10, 2009
The Suramadu Bridge, also known as the Surabaya–Madura Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge between Surabaya on the island of Java and the town of Bangkalan on the island of Madura. The 5.4-km bridge is the longest in Indonesia and the first bridge to cross the Madura Strait.

Egypt
Inauguration of Suez Canal Road Bridge
October 6, 2001
The Suez Canal Road Bridge, also known as the Al Salam Bridge, is a cable-stay bridge which connects Eurasia and Africa. It has a total length of 3.9 kilometers with two 154 meters-high main pylons.

South Africa
Bridges - Bloukrans River Bridge
August 24, 1984
The Bloukrans River Bridge is an arch bridge located near Nature's Valley, Western Cape. The bridge stands at a height of 216 m above the Bloukrans River. Its central span is 272 m and the bridge is 451 m in length in total. The bridge was opened in June 1983.

Slovakia - Hungary Joint Issue
Rebuilding of the Mária Valéria Bridge
October 11, 2001
The Mária Valéria bridge joins Esztergom in Hungary and Štúrovo in Slovakia across the Danube River. Since its opening in 1895 the bridge has been destroyed twice. The new, 500 meter-long truss bridge was rebuilt after 1991.

Latvia
Bridges of Latvia
July 24, 2004
The Railway Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Daugava river in Riga. The first iron railway bridge, over 600 m long, was built in 1871-1872. The new bridge was inaugurated 1914 and was rebuilt twice after WWI and WWII.

Latvia
Bridges of Latvia
August 24, 2002
The old brick bridge across the Venta River in Kuldiga was built in 1874. The 164 meters long arched bridge with seven spans of brick arches was not only the largest and most ornate in the territory of Latvia, but also one of the most modern in Europe.

Latvia
Bridges of Latvia
July 19, 2003
The bridge over Gauja River in Sigulda was opened in 1937. It has triple-fold monolithic reinforced concrete arches with trestle transitions on both ends. It is the only bridge with this structure and technical execution in Latvia. The bridge was destroyed in 1941 and rebuilt in the same location in 1950.

Spain
Bridges of Spain - Engineer Carlos Fernandez Casado Bridge
September 25, 2013
The Engineer Carlos Fernández Casado Bridge, opened in 1983, is a concrete cable-stayed bridge that crosses the reservoir Barrios de Luna, in the province of León in northern Spain. It was the cable-stayed bridge with the longest span in the world for several years.

Five years ago I made my first wish-list of postage stamps with images of bridges for the convenience of collecting. Later, I began to add to the picture with pictures of brands, prices, descriptions of bridges ... For five years, this list of three pages turned into a catalog of three volumes, 2,000 pages, and includes a description 5300 stamps with bridges. My catalog is based on the German catalog Michel and It describes the different types of bridges, aqueducts, natural stone arches, engineers, bridge builders, military bridge-builders. For example, I show a few pages from different volumes.
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Turkey
Inauguration of the Bosphorus Bridge
October 30, 1973
The Bosphorus Bridge is one of the two bridges spanning the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul; thus connecting Europe and Asia. The bridge extends between Ortaköy (in Europe) and Beylerbeyi (in Asia).
It is a gravity-anchored suspension bridge with steel towers and inclined hangers. It is 1,560 m long with a deck width of 33.40 m. The distance between the towers (main span) is 1,074 m.

Republic of China (Taiwan)
Inauguration of The Second Southern Freeway of Taiwan
February 2, 2000
Kaoping River Bridge is situated at the border of Kaohsiung and Pingtung Country. The 2,617 meters long bridge has an asymmetrical structure with various length of spans. The main section of the bridge uses cable-stayed design with a single, 183.5 m-high pylon.

Ireland
Presidency of European Union - Ireland
January 15, 2004
The Mary McAleese Boyne Valley Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in County Meath. The 352.5 m-long bridge spans the Boyne River and is part of the M1 Northern Motorway. When it opened in June 2003, it was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the country.

France
Tourism - Millau Viaduct
December 14, 2004
The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France. It is the tallest bridge in the world with one mast at 343 meters above the base of the structure. The bridge has been consistently ranked as one of the great engineering achievements of all time.

Greece
European Community Support Framework
November 8, 1999
The Rio–Antirrio Bridge crosses the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio on mainland Greece. It is one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges and the longest of the fully suspended type.

Japan 2015 Tokyo Bay Aqua-line. This line crossing the Tokyo Bay, connecting Chiba to Kanagawa, comprises a bridge, as seen in the stamp, transiting into an undersea tunnel via an artificial island called Umihotaru, also shown on stamp.