Bridges

Characterized by the presence of four pinnacles made in 1823 and placed at the base of the stone handrails; this architectural introduction - spiers in fact - helped to rename the bridge that was originally called Ponte di Cannaregio from the cana

The first Rialto bridge was built around 1180 by the architect Nicolò Barattieri, already known in Venice.

A very normal stone bridge, both in the structure and in the parapets, which from Piazzale Roma or the Santa Lucia railway station leads to the wide Campo di San Giacomo dall'Orio, crossing Campo Nazario Sauro.

Since the 18th century, as evidenced by Canaletto in one of his paintings, the Ruga Giuffa bridge was equipped with shoulders, not in iron as now but in stone.

Some trace the nomenclature of this bridge back to the existence, in seventeenth-century Venice, of the Dalla Vecchia family but this version is not confirmed, as no member of the family has lived or owned houses or businesses in Ruga Vecchia.

The Crooked bridges are all those crossings not built perpendicular to the banks.

At the time of the Dominant, to move from one place to another, boat transport - by water - was privileged, while the connections between pedestrian areas - through the use of bridges - were considerably lower than the current one