Bridges

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).

This bridge is, together with those of Rialto, of the Accademia and the recent one of the Constitution, one of the four bridges that cross the Grand Canal.

This bridge, recently built, connects the long and sunny Riva dei Giardini, which begins when Riva Sette Martiri ends, with the Pinewood of Sant'Elena or Parco delle Rimembranze, a popular district of Venice where there is also the stadium dedicat

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 sto

It often happened that the rival factions of the Castellani and Nicolotti clashed for jealousy, envy and rivalry and that their struggles took place right on this bridge which, at that time, did not have the protective shoulders as now.

Towards the end of the 16th century, precisely in 1589, the Senate of the Republic approved the construction of a new building to be used as a prison, which was located on the other side of the Doge's Palace canal.

One of the major bridges in Venice: after the four bridges on the Grand Canal (Rialto, Scalzi, Accademia and the Ponte della Costituzione) and, together with the Ponte delle Guglie, crosses the Rio di Cannaregio.

Disembarking from the vaporetto and traveling along the only access road to the island of Torcello, the Devil's Bridge can be found on the right, before reaching the historical area where you can admire the Provincial Museum of Torcello

Several times in history, starting from 1488, there have been those who had thought of the opportunity to build a new pedestrian crossing on the Grand Canal, in addition to the Rialto bridge, but the idea has always been rejected until the 19th ce

The term anconeta, as can be easily understood by the Venetians, refers to the idea of ​​a small sacred icon, initially positioned in the church of San Marcuola and depicting the Blessed Virgin.

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 y

Also known under the name of Ponte della Zirada, in Italian turning, as during the regattas in this precise point of the Grand Canal the paleto - small pole - is planted around which the boats reverse the direction of travel to m