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Ponte dei Giardini in Riva Sette Martiri, in all its breadth. - (Archive Venipedia / Bazzmann)

Of this bridge, gentle is the ascent, and gentle is the descent. It connects Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi with the entrance to the Public Gardens, at the point where the Monument dedicated to the Naval Armada has been erected.

A bridge that represents one of the ingenious works of Giannantonio Selva characterized by gentle ascent and descent to avoid the steps - as Selva himself described -, showing itself in all its elegance, with a stone structure, normal arch and stone column shoulders of Istria. The bridge is part of a general redevelopment project of the area, which in 1810 saw the construction of the public gardens of Castello - also called Napoleonic because they were built under French rule, or the Biennale - by the architect Selva, who he was also involved in the construction of the nearby Serra dei Giardin

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