Editing Ås, Akershus (section)

== Leonardo da Vinci Bridge ==
[[File:Da Vinci Bridge.jpg|thumb|left|Leonardo da Vinci Bridge in Ås (Åsmund Ødegård)]]
In Nygårdskrysset in Ås municipality over The [[European route E18]] lies the 108-metre-long Leonardo [[Vebjørn Sand Da Vinci Project|Da Vinci project]] which is a project by the painter and artist [[Vebjørn Sand]]as part of his Da Vinci project. Vebjørn Sand saw the drawings of the bridge for the first time in 1985. Later in 1995 he saw a model of the bridge on display in [[Stockholm]], and got the idea to build the bridge in full size.

The bridge was opened in October 2001. The bridge has received solid media coverage in Norway and in the rest of the world. In the United States, the bridge has been featured in [[CNN]], [[Washington Post]], [[The New York Times]] and [[Time Magazine]]. [[Leonardo da Vinci]] presented a miniature model of the bridge in 1502 that was originally designed by the Turkish sultan [[Bayezid II]] and intended to cross the Golden Horn at the [[Bosporos]]-Strait. The bridge was originally supposed to be 240 metres long.