Lisitsite Rope Bridge

During the 1950s,

Bulgaria

was

under socialist rule. At the time, the party designed and built many of the country’s dams and bridges for defense and to improve the quality of life in the country’s high mountainous regions.

Around this time, in the mid-1950s, construction began on a dam called

Studen Kladenets

(“cold well”). As the dam’s reservoir filled, a small bridge was needed to connect the small village of Lisitsite.

At first, a few smaller bridges and ferries connected the village with the world, but all of them were demolished. In 1975, the country’s longest suspension bridge was built. Today, the suspension bridge is 853 feet long.

Fun fact:

Lisitsite

translates to “the foxes” because the village is hidden deep in the mountains like a fox in its den.