The stone railway viaduct in Vorokhta is one of the oldest and longest masonry arch bridges in Europe. Built in 1895 during the Austro-Hungarian era by Italian prisoners of war, it stands today as a striking monument to a golden age of mountain railway engineering.
The bridge spans the Prut River at a spot where the riverbed curves scenically, offering some truly impressive views of the structure from several angles. It measures 200 meters in length, with a central arch spanning 30 meters. Surrounded by the wooded hills of the Eastern Carpathians, it looks lush and green in summer, glows with autumn colors, and turns into a striking snow-dusted scene in winter. The old viaduct is no longer in use — a new railway bridge was built alongside it in 2000, leaving this Austrian-era structure as a preserved historic landmark.
How to get thereIt remains one of the few surviving traces of the ambitious Austro-Hungarian Trans-Carpathian railway line meant to link the Black Sea with the Adriatic.