If you decide to walk over the Tromsoebrua bridge from Tromso city centre to visit the iconic Arctic Cathedral on the banks of the Tromsoysundet fjord makes sure you wrap up warm and have good shoes.

It can be very windy and slippery if temperatures have been below freezing recently. It will take you about 25 minutes to walk from cruise ship docking area to the Arctic Cathedral.

The views of the city are superb from the top of the bridge. Try to take you camera back to the top of the bridge at night to get a timed shot of the twinkling lights against a star filled sky. You may be lucky to see the Northern Lights as well. Luckily all rental cars are fitted with studded snow tyres as standard. If you tried to get over the high incline of the bridge with summer tyres on after it had just snowed you might have a problem with traction.

Tromsoebrua that is the local name for the giant bridge of Tromso, connecting the mainland, the part where the Arctic Cathedral is built and the island, where the port and the old part of the city is situated. Tromsoebrua was opened in 1960. The bridge is 1,036 metres (3,399 ft) long and has 58 spans, of which the longest is 80 metres with a maximum clearance to the sea of 38m (125 ft).

It is a reinforced concrete cantilever road bridge and it crosses the strait of Tromsoysundet, a saltwater fjord. It was the first bridge of this type built in Norway. There is one track for the cars in each direction and at both sides there is a separate path for pedestrians

The Tromsoebrua bridge replaced an inefficient ferry that connected the two sides of the strait, Tromsdalen on the mainland and the island Tromsoya. It helped boost the growth and development of Tromso City. People often forget that Tromso is on an island. There is another cantilever road bridge on the other side of the island near the airport called the Sandnessund Bridge. It has become a landmark of Tromso city.

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