Moses Bridge, Netherlands

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Moses Bridge, Netherlands

This moat in Holland had recently restored, but designers thought it would be inappropriate to go against the original design and build bridges over the moats (building a permanent bridge over the defensive moat of a 17th century fortress might send the wrong message to an invading army). So modern-day Dutch engineers have come up with a clever way of disguising the pathway - by building it under the moat's waterline.

Instead, they came up with an 'invisible' bridge that sits within the moat and would allow people to cross virtually undetected from water level'. The award-winning Moses Bridge - so named as it invokes the biblical image of Moses parting the Red Sea - is now a landmark feature of Fort de Roovere.