Croatia Will Finally Be Reconnected Starting In 2016
Right now Croatia is split in two because Bosnia was given a small strip of the coast a long time ago during a war. A bridge hanging over the land owned by Bosnia & Herzegovina and connecting to Southern Croatia was seen as the perfect solution by Croats.
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Croatia on Wednesday announced that plans to build a long-awaited bridge over the Adriatic sea, connecting the Peljesac peninsula to the mainland, will get underway next year.
An idea dating back to the late 1990s, the 2.4-km-long bridge should connect up two parts of Croatia divided by a 14-km stretch of territory belonging to Bosnia.
Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said the construction of the bridge would secure the easier and safer transport of people and goods within Croatia.
“Above all... there is this desire for Croatia to merge so that one no longer has to travel to and from Dubrovnik through the territory of another state,” he added.
The tourist resort and port city of Dubrovnik, the “pearl” of the Adriatic, is currently divided from the rest of Croatia, hindering access to it by land.
Transport Minister Sinisa Hajdas Doncic said the tender for construction will be announced by the end of the year, while construction will most probably start in the spring of 2016.