Ponte de la Scuola

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte de la Scuola was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de la Frescada bridging a gap which is 4.92 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 Dorsoduro .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 2 steps, on the south side there are 8 steps. This results in a total of 10 steps. The height of a typical step is 15 meters, the thickness of a step is about 42 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 3.1 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 3.1 meters wide and 3.55 meters in length for a total area of about 11.01 meters. The summit is paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Piena railing is made of Mattoni, Intonaco e Pietra d'Istria and is about 32.00 meters wide is about 1.04 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:

�to S. Rocco. Until the beginning of the fifteenth century there was at the church of the Frari a brotherhood under the invocation of St. Rocco. Unitas to another brotherhood, which in honor of the same saint existed in S. Giuliano, built in 1478, a temple sacred to St. Roch, and in 1481 was ascribed by the Council of X between large schools of the city. By means of two monks Camaldolese Yea in 1484 failed to steal from Voghera the body of his patron saint. But then, for reasons unknown, he went away in the same year by the Frari, the church erected landed, and trasferissi at a site in the parish of St. Samuel, where stood an ancient chapel dedicated to S. Susanna. There was going to build a new church, when mutated council, established his residence in the palace of the Patriarch of Grado's Eve. Thereafter, the insurgents some quarrels, he returned to St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and made new agreements with Fathers Minor, raised in 1489, the church in honor of San Rocco, and traslatovvi the body of the saint. Three years later costrusse the first school, which later expanded and he restored. It still exists under the name of \Ragionateria Old\ or \Old School.\ Then about 1516, devotees reached the number of 500 brothers, wanted to erect a larger and more magnificent building for their meetings. It seems that, over a pre-existing model, the teacher incominciasse Bartolammeo Good, who was replaced by Sante Lombardo, and finally the Scarpagnino. The factory was completed in 1549 and cost 47,000 gold ducats. The Brotherhood of St. Rocco had in the past century about 60,000 ducats income, most of which were dispensing to the relief of the poor. As a reward for these charities, Pope Pius VI in 1789 innalzolla above the other, giving it, with many spiritual prerogatives, the title of Arch-confraternity. In general suppression of 1806, so do not let themselves exist that the fraternities of the SS. Sacramento, the Confraternity of S. Rocco was the only respected. The demesne took upon its income but substituted a convenient check pell'uffiziatura of the church. This association flourishes all the day long, and has many confreres especially in the class of Mercadanti. In the school of S. Rocco is exposed publicly on the day of the Holy paintings of the young Venetian masters.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4362725° N

Longitude: 12.3252622° E