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<\/figure>\r\n\r\nThe Bridges of\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0are, to be exact 391, between public and private, not counting the islands, even the largest as the\u00a0Giudecca<\/a>,\u00a0Murano<\/a>,\u00a0Burano<\/a>,\u00a0Torcello<\/a>, whose bridges are counted separately.<\/p>\r\n\r\n When moving to\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0you must be provided with a pair of comfortable shoes to cross with relative ease the bridges that are encountered in the path that it was decided to undertake. The Venetians no longer count as bridges cross in their daily travels in Venice, while a tourist, unaccustomed to long walk, much less to climb the many steps, each bridge could become a torture, every step a stab at the side of the plant feet. Immagine:DeBarbari rialto.JPG<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n Certainly the first wooden bridge was built immediately after the ducal seat was moved from\u00a0Malamocco<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Rialto<\/a>\u00a0in 813, enters the first stone bridge, as we read in\u00a0Diaries<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0Marino Sanudo<\/a>, was built a few centuries later by the Doge Pietro Sardonico near the\u00a0Chiesa di San Zaccaria<\/a>. Then came the first time worked to the\u00a0Istrian stone<\/strong>\u00a0which, from that time up to our days, was always used in all large buildings in the city.<\/p>\r\n\r\n But the king of all the bridges he has remained, the\u00a0Rialto’s Bridge<\/a>, that with wide arch of 28 meters wide and 22 meters high above the center line of tide 7.5 meters, crosses the\u00a0Grand Canal<\/a>. This bridge sums up in its former name the whole glorious history of the life of\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0commercial and seafaring: majestic giant that, as a triumphal arch thrown on the\u00a0Grand Canal<\/strong>, has always dominated in all the popular festivities Venetian and still dominates particularly in\u00a0Historical Regatta<\/a>, which assists, silent witness to the passing of the colorful procession of\u00a0Bissone<\/strong>, the\u00a0Venetian Gondola<\/a>\u00a0dressed up to the nines, infiorate boats and fast\u00a0Gondolini<\/strong>\u00a0who compete to get to top four\u00a0in bandiera<\/strong>, as in past centuries was covered with damask drapes to greet the\u00a0Bucintoro<\/a>\u00a0blazing golds and silvers .<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The first\u00a0Rialto’s Bridge<\/a>, wood and posante of boats, was built in the year 1180; then in 1264 it was built is one goal, but in 1444 fell for the crush of people flocked to witness the triumphant passage of the Marquise of Ferrara. Was rebuilt and still ruined by several fires until the\u00a0Senate of the republic<\/strong>\u00a0he decided to build one more solid stone. The assignment of the building was the architect\u00a0Antonio Da Ponte<\/a>\u00a0that he completed in 1591. From then to the wide steps of the imposing bulk up and down the ladies in fur coats, the gallant gentlemen, the housewives, the merchants and caravans of tourists every nation: fluttuane mass of people over the centuries, as in the years of greatest prosperity of Venice, when you climbed the bejeweled matrons and the austere patricians, intermingled with the crowd of commoners with black fringed shawl over her shoulders, and merchants eastern and northern Europe, gathered here to sell spices, perfumes, fabrics and rare.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n There is also another important bridge to remember, a must destination for those coming to\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0for the first time: the\u00a0Ponte della Paglia<\/a>, wide, with low steps and two beautiful backs in columns work well , built for the first time in 1337. Here they stop the tourists for the ritual photograph and linger there to stop your eye on the\u00a0Bridge of Sighs<\/a>, which is suspended between the\u00a0Doges’ Palace<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Palace Prison<\/a>, awakening memories and grim legendary stories that the imagination of the common people has created.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Under that plane bridge that is flanked by two openings pierced and is reflected in the dark of\u00a0Rio Palace<\/a>, continue to slide read the\u00a0Gondolas<\/a>\u00a0lovers to continue to enjoy the gentle rocking of the boat in cobweb of other culprits in the shade of other bridges. <\/p>\r\n\r\n The fragile boat came off, was seen to meet a ship load of infernal spirits, but as soon as the three strangers made the sign of the cross, the ship sank in the waters with all the damned and immediately returned to the sea calm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The three strangers, who were none other than\u00a0San Marco<\/strong>,\u00a0San Giorgio<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Saint Nicholas<\/strong>, in parting from the boatman gave him a gold ring to cause the Doge, which in receiving it, immediately recognized that he kept in the\u00a0Treasury of San Marco<\/strong>\u00a0and that he had taken out of the invisible hand. <\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Arco del Paradiso con insegne araldiche –\u00a0VeniceWiki<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n There is another bridge whose construction was attributed to the devil and it is said\u00a0Devil’s Bridge<\/a>\u00a0and not long since this is the\u00a0Bridge of Heaven<\/a>\u00a0which gives access to the homonymous\u00a0Calle del Paradiso<\/a>\u00a0of the fourteenth century.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Among the best known and busiest bridges mentions the\u00a0Scalzi Bridge<\/a>, bold and elegant stone building, overlooking the\u00a0Grand Canal<\/a>\u00a0near\u00a0Railway Station Saint Lucia<\/a>\u00a0and is not far find the\u00a0Guglie Bridge<\/a>, so called by the four decorative obelisks, was built in 1580 in Istrian stone horse of the large\u00a0Cannaregio Canal<\/a>. <\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Ponte dei Pugni –\u00a0VeniceWiki<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n Instead of several Venetian bridges, especially of those who then had the\u00a0bande<\/strong>, the parapets protectors, it took place the fights between peasants of different districts. These struggles took the form of real fights, were made several times a year and unsuccessful, pests from bastoate and fists, usually ended in the waters of the channel below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The memory of these fights, which lasted until the beginning of 1705, is still alive in the name of\u00a0Ponte della Guerra<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0San Marco<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Campo Santa Maria Formosa<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Ponte di Santa Fosca<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ponte dei Pugni<\/a>\u00a0in San Barnaba, who went up to the early twenty-first century when remade the paving of bridges, still bore the imprints on the middle shelf of the feet in marble on which contestants posed just before the start of the fight. How many are in total the steps of all the bridges of\u00a0Venice<\/a>?<\/strong> Having a precise number of bridges which connect the various islands that make\u00a0Venice<\/a>, would curiosity also know how many they are, in total, the steps that make up the various bridges to have, then, a total number of steps that you can climb and down through all the bridges of\u00a0Venice<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Originally it was not as many as today. It was flat and made of wood, as still seen in\u00a0Plant from bird’s eye\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0Jacopo de Barbari<\/a>, then, over the years, built arched, stepped, stone and brick . When were flat or with steps lower, deeper, to\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0circulating the carriages and the horses could graze in the fields at that time were not paved with stones.<\/p>\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/venicewiki.org\/images\/thumb\/d\/d7\/4%29_Ponte_degli_Scalzi.jpg\/400px-4%29_Ponte_degli_Scalzi.jpg\")
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The\u00a0Ponte della Paglia<\/a>\u00a0reminds us of one of the most expensive Venetian legends, described by the brush of\u00a0Paris Bondone<\/strong>. The framework, which is in\u00a0Accademia Gallery<\/a>, is titled\u00a0‘The delivery of the ring to the Doge’\u00a0<\/em>. Legend has it that on the night of February 25, 1340\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0was devastated by a terrible storm that threatened to engulf the entire city. A poor fisherman, repaired his boat under the bridge, showed a mysterious character by ordering traghettarlo island of\u00a0San Giorgio Maggiore<\/a>; but here he appeared a stranger, then a third party who insisted on being transported to St. Nicholas of\u00a0Lido<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
An old bridge that reminds us of another miraculous event is the\u00a0Ponte di San Lorenzo<\/a>\u00a0from which, as the chronicles, in 1369, fell in the underlying Rio\u00a0silver reliquary of the Holy Cross<\/strong>, the priest went in procession to the nearby church.
Sacred relic did not sink, but was miraculously to float on water until the official priest not jumped into the canal to take and bring back to the waterfront. This fact was later, in 1500, immortalized by the brush of\u00a0Gentile Bellini<\/a>\u00a0in his beautiful painting, known as the\u00a0Miracle of the Cross<\/strong>, now in the\u00a0Accademia Gallery<\/a>.
There is also a bridge that popular imagination has given birth in one night by mysterious hands and called\u00a0Ponte de le Meravegie<\/a>, in the fifteenth century.<\/p>\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/venicewiki.org\/w\/skins\/common\/images\/magnify-clip.png\")
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The so-called\u00a0‘infamous bridges will remember just one. In order to give the public as to the severity of justice, the Venetian government had ordered that some sentences, such as the cutting off of hands, tongue and the execution of the quartering were performed on some bridges. Such unedifying shows there remains the memory in\u00a0Ponte dei Squartai<\/a>,\u00a0Bridge of quartered<\/strong>\u00a0near Tolentini. So it was not enough that the murderess was sent to another world with a single blow of the ax, but thick time that unfortunate was torn to pieces,\u00a0quartered<\/strong>, which were then exhibited in four parts of the city because the citizens They knew the name, the crime committed and the conviction of the culprit.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
At one of these fights with sticks witnessed in 1574 King Henry III of France, who was then a guest of the Serenissima. The fight which took place on\u00a0Ponte Foscarini<\/a>\u00a0to Carmini, attended as many as 200 people, 100 per share, which at the end the king wanted to reward with several gold ducats.
Of historic bridges in\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0there are many. All have devoted their name to some important event.
On\u00a0Ponte di San Polo<\/a>\u00a0in 1548\u00a0Lorenzino de Medici<\/strong>\u00a0and his uncle\u00a0Alessandro Soderini<\/strong>\u00a0were killed by two assassins paid by Duke Cosimo.
On\u00a0Ponte Santa Fosca<\/a>\u00a0on the evening of October 5, 1607\u00a0Fra Paolo Sarpi<\/a>\u00a0was attacked by five individuals, part of his enemies. Today in\u00a0Campo Santa Fosca<\/a>\u00a0beautiful bronze monument dedicated to the illustrious friar served.
The\u00a0Ponte Storto in Sant’Aponal<\/a>\u00a0climbs on the building where he was born the seductive\u00a0Bianca Cappello<\/strong>, who had a relationship with a young Florentine, fled with him in Florence, where, a few years later, he met the Duke Francesco de Medici, who married her, and where in 1687, they both died of poison.
To\u00a0Bridge Holy Apostles<\/a>, which preserves the avenzi decorative XIII-XIV century, there is still the building that was the Doge\u00a0Marino Faliero<\/strong>\u00a0who,\u00a0but as a result of its’ thoughts\u00a0<\/em>he was imprisoned in April 1355 beheaded.
Other bridges have reason to be appointed, even for the lives of some artists who have lived in those places, as in the Parish of San Canciano in the vicinity of the bridge lived and died the great\u00a0Tiziano Vecellio<\/a>.
The\u00a0Marco Polo Bridge<\/strong>\u00a0there was the home of\u00a0Polo<\/strong>\u00a0where\u00a0Marco Polo<\/a>\u00a0spent his childhood and the last years of his troubled existence.
To\u00a0Ponte San Basegio<\/a>\u00a0was born and lived the distinguished portraitist\u00a0Rosalba Carriera<\/a>.
To\u00a0Ponte de la Calcina<\/a>\u00a0died in 1750 the poet laureate\u00a0Apostolo Zeno<\/strong>.
To\u00a0Ponte San Tom\u00e0<\/a>\u00a0was born and lived\u00a0Carlo Goldoni<\/a>, whose house is now a national monument.
To\u00a0Ponte dei Fuseri<\/a>\u00a0from 29 September to 1 October 1786 lodged\u00a0Wolfgang Goethe<\/strong>.
To\u00a0Ponte della Cortesia<\/a>\u00a0is the building from which the patriot Daniele Manin in 1849 he left for exile.<\/p>\r\n
The\u00a0Rialto’s Bridge<\/a>\u00a0has a total of 316 steps, as described in the relevant page, while the other three bridges crossing the\u00a0Grand Canal<\/a>\u00a0have, respectively, 80 the\u00a0Scalzi Bridge<\/a>, the 122\u00a0Accademia Bridge<\/a>, the 106\u00a0Constitution Bridge<\/a>, for a total of 624 steps.<\/p>\r\n