It represents the fourth bridge over the Grand Canal whose project was entrusted, in 1999, by the Municipality of Venice to the architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava (for this reason commonly called Calatrava Bridge) and was inaugurated nine years later.
The bridge consists of a single arch of 81 meters (the steel part), has a length of 94 meters and a radius of 180; the surface varies from +3.20 meters at the beginning of the steps up to + 9.28 meters at the highest point.
Structurally, it consists of a central arch, two lower and two lateral; the arched part
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