With the erection of the last steel segment of the main span of the bridge near Ada Ciganlija river island, the banks of the Sava River in Belgrade were connected on Monday.

The execution of the project was attended by Serbian President Boris Tadic and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas and city assembly President Aleksandar Antic.

The Bridge on Ada will have six lanes, two tube lines, and two bike and pedestrian lanes.

The new bridge, with a central pillar 200 meters high, will be 964 meters long and 45 meters wide.

Next weekend, August 13 and 14, the new bridge will be open for citizens who want to cross on foot.

First vehicles will pass over the bridge on December 15, when a part of access roads will be finished and the bridge will be completed during 2013.

According to Djilas, the cost of the bridge amounts to EUR 120 million not including the access roads.

The world media have presented the bridge as a construction wonder and one of the world's largest one-pylon bridges.

A documentary movie on the Bridge on Ada premiered on the Build It Bigger show of the U.S. Discovery Channel in July 2011.

The one-hour film was taped in Belgrade in December 2010, describing the bridge as the greatest bridge construction project in Europe and the first mega project in Belgrade after the nineties.