Mária Valéria Bridge

It is named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868–1924), the fourth child of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Franz Josef and Elisabeth.

In 1920, according to the Treaty of Trianon, Párkány (present-day Štúrovo) became part of the newly formed Czechoslovakia, so the bridge was cut by the border.

On 22 July 1919 it was destroyed by a detonation caused by the occupying Czechoslovak Legion at its first pier on its western side, but was renovated in 1922 and completely reconstructed in 1926.

Decades of intransigence between the Communist governments of Hungary and Czechoslovakia meant that the bridge was not rebuilt until the new millennium, finally reopening on 11 October 2001.

His book A Time of Gifts ends on the bridge and the second volume, Between the Woods and the Water, begins with his crossing into Esztergom.