There are more than ten bridges spanning the Huong River, however none of the ten bridges have been able to make a mark as a symbol of Hue like the Trang Tien Bridge. As written in Annual of Unified Great Nam by "The office of Vietnam History" of the Nguyen Dynasty, "the metal bridge Trang Tien in the south east of the Capital commenced to be built in the 9th year of King Thanh Thai (1897) and then finished in 1899. The bridge is about 400m long with 6 spans". The colossal metal structure of the Trang Tien Bridge was affected by a terrible typhoon in August 1904, which devastated the Center of Vietnam, and left 6 spans of the bridge broken. Only two spans of the bridge could sustain the onslaught of the catastrophic typhoon. The bridge was reconstructed in 1906. Since then the Trang Tien Bridge has been repaired so many times again.