Ponte del Megio
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Overview of Bridge
The Ponte del Megio was built primarily using Mattoni, Intonaco e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio del Megio bridging a gap which is 4.2 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of Santa Croce and on the southern side is also Santa Croce .There are 4 ramps. On the north side there are 8 steps, on the south side there are 10 steps. This results in a total of 18 steps. The height of a typical step is 14 meters, the thickness of a step is about 40 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 2.45 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 2.95 meters wide and 1.83 meters in length for a total area of about 5.40 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 3.00 meters wide is about 0.96 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.3 meters to the North and 0.3 meters to the South.
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History
The following is any history we have regarding the bridge's origins:
�to S. James dall'Orio. In Topographical map of Venice, published by Coronelli, we note that at these localities there were \public warehouses sayings of them Megio, or Mile.\ These barns, still subsisting, acquired the name, perhaps because there was once a large amount of the fine fodder, \Megio\ or millet, the respondent, of which we see occur sometimes made to pack the bread flour for use by the population. In fact, attested to in the news, many people would have perished in the famine of 1346 \fuisset Milium nisi quod erat tunc Venetiis, et fuerat good for XX, XXI XXII et annos.\ Even the record Molin (Stork Codes 2620, 2621 notes that in the famine of 1559 �sary lot of dead people if the providence of the Senate had not opened them magazzeni de nautical miles saved them in this respect.\ And when he died in 1570 the Doge Pietro loredan, there were, according to the Additions to the chronicle of Caroldo (Class VII, Code 142 of the Marciana, \cries popular for famine, telling the dose Megioto, which fe 'sell to Pistori the millet bread with sarsezza.\ On \Foundation Megio\ stands a house style of the fifteenth century, which was the famous historian Marino Sanudo. See Rawdon Brown (\Ragguagli on the life and works of Marino Sanuto.\ On the front of it was placed, they are not many years, commemorative iscrizione.Sul \Rio Megio� s'ammira the palace Priuli-Statius, taste sansovinesco. formerly belonged to Surian, an ancient patrician family, settled in 1630. John q. Antonio vendevalo of this family in 1584 to Priced , which, after having done rifabbricare, as we see nowadays, resold in 1636 to the Commissioner of Lorenzo Statius, from what family in 1659 was in ownership of the Priuli. Successes other passages, was finally bought in 1859 by the City of Venice, and for some years he did serve in district Guards Municipali.Sopra It contained this stream, similarly, the palace Renier, destroyed in 1811, where he was born in 1710 penultimate Doge Paolo Renier.
Location
The bridge is located at the following coordinates:
Latitude: 45.440921° N
Longitude: 12.3284232° E