Ponte de Ca' Bernado
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Overview of Bridge
The Ponte de Ca' Bernado was built primarily using Mattoni, Intonaco e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de le Do Torre bridging a gap which is 9.13 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of San Polo and on the southern side is also San Polo .There are 3 ramps. On the north side there are 10 steps, on the south side there are 8 steps. This results in a total of 18 steps. The height of a typical step is 15 meters, the thickness of a step is about 50 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 1.38 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 4.56 meters wide and 3.16 meters in length for a total area of about 14.41 meters. The summit is paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Vuoto Decorato railing is made of Metallo and is about 4.00 meters wide is about 0.93 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.4 meters to the North and 1.2 meters to the South.
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History
The following is any history we have regarding the bridge's origins:
to St. Augustine. Tower Bridge at this archiacuto a palace that once belonged to the patrician Bernardo family, and who thereafter became the property of Celsi. The Bernard family came among us from Rome, or from the Trivigiana, in an age so remote as to produce tribunes, and always dimostrossi worthy of the state. He was a captain Francesco Bernardo in 1303 large armed ship against Andronicus emperor of Constantinople. Another Francis, in 1545, bargaining in Albion, came to conclude peace between Francis I, King of France and Henry VIII of England. Created so knighted by both, and bestowed of annual salary, you gave up so soon as he returned to his homeland, in the service of which claimed afterwards important uses. The family was well Bernardo others who rose up beautiful cry of itself especially in the wars against the infidels. Neither here goes silent for that Peter is well known for the singularity of his will, made October 30, 1515. He ordered that he just died, were washed in vinegar most exquisite, and then anointed with musk, pel valsente of 40 ducats, three doctors of the most notorious, to which they gave in return for three sequins beautiful and Ruspi ciascheduno, it was deposited with aloes and other flavorings in a lead coffin, where he could lie down comfortably, what the case is closed again in another very big cypress, tight and pitched so well that he could not open if not breaking it, which were placed in a marble tomb worth 600 ducats, in front of which were to sculpt eight hexameters, containing the deeds of him in capital letters to be read at a distance of 25 feet, with the prize to the poet of a pure in every other line, which is above the ark scolpissero the Eternal Father, and he, Peter Bernard, kneeling, forms so large as to seem to twenty-five feet away a man of great stature who finally been celebrated in a book of eight hundred verses the glories of his family, and seven componessero in imitation of the Davidic psalms with other prayers, to be sung on the first Sunday of the month from twenty friars, the break of dawn, before the tomb of him.\nThese requirements were not strictly performed. The Bernard died in 1538, and twenty years later he is lifted up in the church of the Frari an elegant monument Lombard, which is attributed to Alessandro Leopardi.\nThe Bernard family, which became extinct in 1868, gave the name to other places in the city.
Location
The bridge is located at the following coordinates:
Latitude: 45.4386343° N
Longitude: 12.3294446° E