The town of Tolga in eastern Norway inaugurated the Danang – Tolga friendship  granite bridge in August 2006. The 40-meter bridge was carved by 12 young Vietnamese artists of the Danang Sculpture Center, under the supervision of Tolga native and master sculptor Oyvin Storbækken.

The bridge, laid across a small water body in the heart of Tolga, had been built using 125 tons of granite quarried in Danang and transported to Norway by ship, and 40 tons of granite from Tolga. It had taken two months to assemble the carved pieces and create the bridge using ancient European bridge architecture and Vietnamese designs. The bridge was to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Norway diplomatic relations and was the first of a series of sculptures planned for Tolga in cooperation with the Danang Sculpture Center.

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Tolga granite bridge in summer and winter