Exponale, Footbridge in Expo Park Hannover, Germany

Exponale is a steel girder footbridge within Expo Park Hannover. It connects different areas of the park and allows visitors to move between exhibition halls and event spaces.

The bridge was built for the World Expo 2000 in Hannover and has been part of the park infrastructure since then. It was created to handle the large visitor numbers during the expo and has shaped the park landscape ever since.

The name Exponale was also used for the film festival held during Expo 2000. On all four bridges and on the light steles, weathered remnants of the lettering "Preussag" can still be seen; the company largely co-financed the bridges and was already called TUI in 2002.

The bridge starts at the western end of Expo Plaza, crosses the Messeschnellweg and leads onto the roof of Hall 8; a large open staircase then drops about 130 m inside the exhibition grounds facing the Convention Center. Shortly before mid-span, a smaller footbridge branches off at right angles to the car park and parking spaces to the south. Since the 2009 reduction to 15 m, the walkable width is half the original.

At its opening in 2000 the Exponale was Europe's largest pedestrian bridge, and organisers claimed its size made it visible from an aircraft. Faded remnants of the Preussag lettering can still be seen on all four Expo bridges and on the light steles; the company, which largely co-financed the bridges, was already called TUI by 2002.