From Ancient Routes to Modern Marvels: Discover the Rio-Antirrio Strait
The Patras Bridge (Rio-Antirrio Bridge) is located at the strait of Rio-Antirrio, at the transition between the Gulf of Patras and the Gulf of Corinth.
The first person to officially cross the Rio-Antirrio Bridge was a torchbearer as part of the Olympic Torch Relay for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
The Rio-Antirrio Bridge is one of the world’s longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges.
• It connects the Peloponnese peninsula (Rio) with mainland Greece (Antirrio), near the city of Patras.
• Officially opened in August 2004, just before the Athens Olympic Games.
• Named after Charilaos Trikoupis, a 19th-century Greek Prime Minister who first proposed the idea of such a bridge.