The 721-meter-long bridge is built at an altitude of more than 1,100 meters (3,610 feet) above sea level.
The world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge - Sky Bridge 721 - has opened for tourists on Friday at a mountain resort in the Czech Republic.
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The bridge is located in the northeastern part of the country in the Kralicky Sneznik mountain range near the border with Poland, some 200 kilometers east of Prague.
Length
The 721-meter (2,365-foot) long bridge is built at an altitude of more than 1,100 meters (3,610 feet) above sea level. It connects two ridges of the mountains and hangs up to 95 meters (312 feet) above the valley below.
The previous longest such bridge is in Arouca, Portugal, and is 516 meters (1,693 feet) long.
(Photo: Visit Czech Republic)
Tourist
Theo Scheepens, 59, from the Netherlands was one of the first tourists who visited the bridge. "Marvelous, impressive, the bridge moves, so you think something is going to happen," he said.
"I wonder what is going to happen when it is windy. It is terrific weather, we are very blessed,” he added.
(Photo: Visit Czech Republic)