Ponte de la Calcina

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Basic Information
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Canal Crossed
Handicapped Accessible?
Length (m)
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Latitude (°)
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Private
Crooked Bridge?

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte de la Calcina was built primarily using Mattoni, Intonaco e Pietra d'Istria. Since then the bridge was last restored on 01-Jan-91.It crosses the Rio de S. Vio bridging a gap which is 10.8 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of Dorsoduro and on the southern side is also Dorsoduro .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 12 steps, on the south side there are 12 steps. This results in a total of 24 steps. The height of a typical step is 14 meters, the thickness of a step is about 60 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 4.6 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 4.6 meters wide and 5.3 meters in length for a total area of about 24.38 meters. The summit is paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Vuoto Geometrico railing is made of Metallo e Pietra d'Istria and is about 5.00 meters wide is about 0.91 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0 meters to the North and 0 meters to the South.

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History

The following is any history we have regarding the bridge's origins:

on rafts. It 'clear the origin of these names if one considers that we are talking about the Bridge crosses the Rivo di S. Vito, and in the collection of laws made by Rompiasi belonging to the Magistrate of water is found as follows: \Both the railway transported the stones cooked and mortar, which was opposite the Incurable, following the stream of S. Vito. 1690 May 12. \ In addition, says the Sagredo in the book entitled: \On cliques of Arts edificative in Venice\, which existed here at the warehouses of the \Calcineri\ (sellers of lime).\nThe art of \Calcineri� raccoglievasi in the church of Santi Vito e Modesto under the invocation of Saints Anthony and Liberal. Although the said art abbiansi most ancient memories, he is certain that he made a beginning to their school in the church indicated only in 1597, as appears from the following entry is from the records of the sacristy, \1597. ADI 17 Zener. To the praise of God and Missier Santo Antonio, and S. Missier Liberal, who free from pain, this was principiada our school on the day of St. Anthony Abbate, our gonfalon fo first elected. \ The surriferita annotation can be read in the \Summary\ joined the \Memorial of Bishop Patriarch of Venice and suffragan bishops for confirmation and Augmento of the cult of the Blessed Contessa Tagliapietra\ etc.. directed to Pope Clement XIII, and imprinted in Venice from Modesto Fenzo in 1765. What about the claim camped in 1661 by the art of \Calcineri\ to guard them only the body of the Blessed, who was lying under the table their altar, claim that gave rise to a dispute with the parish priest, finished with a temperament that would lay two keys to the chest, one of which keep it by the parish priest, and the other by the steward of the school.\nAt the \Calcina Bridge,\ as appears from tombstone, lived Apostolo Zeno, poet laureate and a precursor of Metastasio. He died in this his home in 1750. We Obituaries in Health: \A day November 11, 1750: Ill.mo Sig Apostle Zen was the Ill.mo Signor Pietro, aged 83, from paralysis shots replicated in many months, who died at 15, med . Soardi co - S. Agnes. \ Zeno was buried with honorable epitaph in the church of S. Maria del Rosario, to whom he had given the Dominican fathers, being still alive, his rich library.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4288993° N

Longitude: 12.328769° E