Which French landmark is the world’s tallest cable-stayed bridge?

The Millau Viaduct is the world’s tallest cable-stayed bridge.

The bridge carries the A75 motorway across the Tarn valley near Millau in southern France. Designed by British architect Norman Foster and French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux, it was built to improve the route between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers while avoiding heavy traffic through Millau.

The viaduct opened in December 2004. Its highest mast reaches 343 metres, making the structure taller than the Eiffel Tower’s highest point. The roadway is supported by seven slender piers and a network of stay cables, while the deck stretches for approximately 2.46 kilometres across the valley.

The Millau Viaduct is often confused with the tallest bridge by deck height, a category that has included other structures depending on the measurement used. Its widely cited record concerns the height of its highest structural point, not the elevation of the road above the ground. The bridge is both an engineering landmark and a major transport link.