Ponte dei Dai

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte dei Dai , constructed in 1869, was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de le Procuratie bridging a gap which is 6.61 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of San Marco and on the southern side is also San Marco .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 10 steps, on the south side there are 12 steps. This results in a total of 22 steps. The height of a typical step is 12 meters, the thickness of a step is about 40 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 2.67 meters.The steps are paved with Asfalto. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 4.62 meters wide and 3.53 meters in length for a total area of about 16.31 meters. The summit is paved with Asfalto. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Vuoto Decorato railing is made of Metallo and is about 3.50 meters wide is about 1.04 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.2 meters to the North and 0.15 meters to the South.

History

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

�to S. Marco. And 'tradition that this bridge, hill nearby streets, has derived its name from the cry of the people \come on! come on! \(dalli! dalli! behind some of the conspirators Bajamonte Tiepolo, who, after the defeat reported June 10, 1310, fleeing the\ Piazza di S. Marco. \And 'to be considered, however, that in all the ancient documents it bridge is not called \dei Dai,\ but \Dice\, by which it can be assumed that here we were selling dice game, or you costumasse to gamble to them. Indeed, the \Rio dei Dai\ in an Act of September 2, 1433 is called \Rivus pontis Taxillorum\, and the bridge in Sabellico \Tesserarum pons.\ In addition, a 'Nicholas of them nuts \in 1366, and a\ Piero from them dice \in 1440, ambidue Brothers of Mercy of the school, lived in the parish of S.Geminiano, to which the locations were formerly subject. know that until then the most remote times giuocavasi to the nuts on the streets of Venice, and we have some of the laws of the thirteenth century that prohibited from doing so under the portico of the church of S. Marco, the Doge's Palace and under, when he was summoned the Great Council. The 'Ponte dei Dai \had the other name of\ Malpasso, \and that also varies is the judgment of the chronicles, as some say that this name arose in 1310 allusion to the defeat and flight of the conspirators, and others that existed in antecedence.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4345135° N

Longitude: 12.337812° E