A fin-de-siecle cantilevered span. Each post of the bridge is topped by a mythical turul bird ready to take flight. The bridge was inaugurated in 1896 as part of the monumental series of ceremonies organized to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the arrival of the Magyars in the Carpathian Basin. The third bridge on the river, it was originally named after Francis Joseph: the Emperor himself ceremonially fixed the last rivet on the bridge. Unable to escape its fate, this bridge was also blown up during the war, but was later rebuilt.