Széchenyi Chain Bridge

bridge, Budapest, Hungary

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Budapest

  • central Budapest
    In Budapest: Transportation

    …oldest and best-known is the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Lánchíd), built in the 1840s and named for the 19th-century Hungarian reformer István Széchenyi.

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Clark

  • In Adam Clark

    …with the construction of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Lánchíd) between Buda and Pest (two districts of present-day Budapest), the first permanent bridge over the Danube River in Hungary. He also designed the Buda Tunnel at the Buda bridgehead. The square between the bridge and the tunnel is named for…

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