Walking along the sunny Fondamenta delle Zattere, towards the Madonna della Salute and Punta della Dogana, you come across this bridge, a few steps from Ponte de la Calcina (a place that brings to mind the other famous writer John Ruskin).
The Ponte degli Incurabili owes its name to the building that overlooks the Giudecca Canal, the former Hospital of the Incurables, now the main seat of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. The building dates back to the 16th century and was founded to help people suffering from diseases, such as syphilis, which were incurable at the time. It then
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