Ponte dei Fuseri

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte dei Fuseri , constructed in 1755, was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio dei Fuseri bridging a gap which is 7.24 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 12 steps, on the south side there are 14 steps. This results in a total of 26 steps. The height of a typical step is 12 meters, the thickness of a step is about 44 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 1.84 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 4.29 meters wide and 5.64 meters in length for a total area of about 24.20 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 0.98 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 1.1 meters to the North and 0.2 meters to the South.

History

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

�to S. Luke. There stanziavano the makers of spindles. Some \Fuseri\ by S. Luca are found recorded in ancient times as brothers of the Great Schools. Even Obituaries of the Magistrate of Health make a living memory 'Bernardo fuser' from S. Luke, who died Oct. 17, 1613. We read in the \rasps,\ which, having a Filacanevo Antonio, in agreement with Orsa Cantarella, conducted a daughter of this woman, aged about 8, to the house of some flower from Bologna to \Pontem Fusariorum,\ there took her virginal flower , \do not explete tamen\, and thus a judgment November 4, 1440, he was sentenced to be whipped by S. Marco to Rialto, to stay six months in prison and to pay a fine of 100 pounds for the damage. This bridge is remembered Yea in the judgment of 13 June 1441 against Datalo jew, discovered adulterer of a Giacometti, Christian woman. See Schiavine (Calle delle. A part of the Council of Ten, April 26, 1585, against the aggressions and assassinations that were happening frequently then in Venice, tells us that on the evening of Holy Thursday of that year was in \Calle dei Fuseri� assaulted and robbed the \cap. Antonio Fortuna,\ and that a few hours later, in the same street, he touched equal chance to \Piero de Stefano Carmin Grison, hosto to Salvadego.\ Al \Bridge of Fuseri 'lived Ercole Bentivoglio, nephew of John II Lord of Bologna and distinguished poet vulgar. This we learn from Chapter directed to a \Mrs. Agnola� in love with him. Pella district where he died see Jeremiah S. (Parish etc. ..

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4346684° N

Longitude: 12.3353589° E