Later than the Roman period, but the Muslims pushed through the Carcassone Gap and as far as Tours before they were stopped by Charles the Great.
One of the longest bridges of Europe is found in my home country, Sweden. It connects an Island with less than 25 000 inhabitants, Öland, to the Swedish mainland.
We'd call that pork in America. On the other hand, the new bridge from Denmark to Malmo was probably a useful feat of engineering, and should provide an adequate connection between Germany and Scandanavia.
The longest bridge in America is more than 6 times longer than the Oland bridge.
Concerning The Öland Bridge:
“We’d call that pork in America”.
- The point was this; if a small country like Sweden easily could finance a 19 921 ft bridge between an island of less than 25 000 inhabitants and its mainland in 1972, why hasn’t more been accomplished in the area of basic infrastructure throughout Europe by today?