Editing Calafat (section)

==Transport==
{{Main|New Europe Bridge}}
[[File:Primaria calafat.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Calafat City Hall]]
Calafat lies on the river corridor VII-Danube and the [[Pan-European Corridors|pan-European corridor]] IV, which starts in Germany and ends in [[Istanbul]] and [[Thessaloniki]]. The city is at the crossroads of [[Roads in Romania|National Roads]] DN56, DN56A, and DN55A and [[European route E79]]. The city of Calafat and its neighbour, Vidin (Bulgaria), are linked by a bridge over the Danube in the area called Bașcov ([[Danube Bridge 2]]), built by the Spanish company [[Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas|FCC]]. The project of constructing a Danubian bridge in the area of Calafat–Vidin dates back to 1925. Road traffic between Vidin and Calafat was doubling every year, so it became necessary to construct a bridge with four lanes of road traffic, a railway line, a lane two meters wide for bikes and a pavement for pedestrians. The bridge has a total length of {{cvt|1971|m}} and its cost is estimated at [[United States dollar|US$]]200 million. It was officially opened on 14 June 2013.<ref name="opening">[http://focus-news.bg/?id=n1786188 Announcement] of the Bulgarian president as published by Focus News Agency on 22 May 2013 (in Bulgarian), retrieved 31 May 2013</ref>