Millau Viaduct

About

The viaduct of Millau is a remarkable bridge with French haubans, crossing the Tarn valley, in the department of Aveyron, about 2.5 km long and inaugurated on December 14, 2004. Wearing the A75, it ensures the junction between the Red causse and the Larzac causse by crossing a breach of 2,460 meters long and 343 meters deep at the highest point, in a high quality panorama and with winds likely to blow at more than 200 km/h. Development of national and international importance, and link of the A75 motorway linking Clermont-Ferrand to Béziers, this project took thirteen years of technical and financial studies.

Studies began in 1987 and the work was commissioned on December 16, 2004, only three years after the first stone was laid. At a cost of €320 million, it was financed and realized by the Eiffage Group under a concession, the first of its kind, by its duration of 78 years, including three years devoted to construction, defined by Decree No. 2001-923 of 8 October 2001.