Novoplanovsky bridge Photo: Novoplanovsky bridge

Novoplanovsky bridge is one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine Kamyanets-Podilsky and connects the two banks of the river Smotrich. Kamianets-Podilskyi ranks third in Ukraine by the number of architectural monuments after Kyiv and Lviv. In it there are about two hundred, and Novoplanovsky bridge is one of them.

Before the construction of the Novoplanovskogo bridge were houses at the Eastern shore of the river Smotrych. And January 31, 1874, was the Grand opening of this bridge, which has become quite an important milestone in the life of the ancient city of Kamyanets-Podilsky. This beautiful historic city finally managed to finally escape from close loop is for him, which formed a river Smotrich, new and attractive spaces for him.

Semidiagonal bridge thrown over the extraordinary beauty of the canyon, the main and its main function is to connect the Old city with the New.

Huge and powerful, the bridge was built according to the project designed by the provincial architect of the Sand and work on the construction of the bridge was supervised by the famous city architect kostanecki. The total bridge length is 149 meters, and its height has about 38 meters. From Novoplanovskogo bridge originates from the most ancient street of the New town – street downtown.

Going through this bridge, you will remain memorable panoramic beauty opening before my eyes. On the left side you can see the old Potter's tower, which hangs over the Smotrych river and the impression that she was about to fall into it. This tower was built at the expense of the pottery workshop in the 16th century.

On the right side Novoplanovskogo bridge is a stone staircase down which you can see a rickety suspension bridge that until Novoplanovsky was the only option of a passage from the New town to the Old one.

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