Strings Bridge

This guide to Strings Bridge in Jerusalem opens on its unveiling night in June 2008, when Santiago Calatrava's harp-shaped, cable-stayed span drew twenty thousand people to watch dancers perform beneath it. It follows the bridge's design, sixty-six steel cables strung from a single mast about a hundred and eighteen meters tall, evoking King David's harp, and the controversy that nearly derailed the ceremony when ultra-Orthodox leaders objected to the dancers' costumes. Best heard standing beneath the mast, looking up at the strings against the sky.