Ponte Avogadro

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte Avogadro was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. Since then the bridge was last restored on 01-Jan-92.It crosses the Rio de S.M. Formosa bridging a gap which is 7.48 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of Castello and on the southern side is also Castello .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 0 steps, on the south side there are 4 steps. This results in a total of 4 steps. The height of a typical step is 13 meters, the thickness of a step is about 50 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 1.63 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 3.3 meters wide and 7.08 meters in length for a total area of about 23.36 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 0.88 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.5 meters to the North and 0.3 meters to the South.

History

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

to S. Maria Formosa. Puts the palace Avogadro, and was once made of wood, because in Venice Plant combined with 'Travel' father Vincenzo Coronelli, published in 1697, is here marked the \wooden bridge goes in Ca 'Avogadro'. This family, which is believed a branch of the Scala family, acquired the surname from having been for a long time it 'its individuals advocate of the bishop and the church of Brescia. Having a Peter Avogadro cooperated powerfully to the preservation of Brescia, besieged Dall'Armi of the Duke of Milan, was admitted to the Great Council with the descendants in 1437. Luigi Antonio, son of him, 'twas found in 1495 as a military leader of the Venetians, the famous day of Taro against the French, and afterwards, with the title of Master of the Field, the siege of Novara. On the occasion of the League of Cambrai, he offered to the Republic 600 infantrymen paid at his own expense for years, but having been due to Brescia, occupied by the French returned under the Veneto domain, and having as a result the French, in their turn, received his city, was by them, in 1512, beheaded with his sons Peter and Francis. Other family Avogadro made famous in arms, among which we like to recall that Rizzardo, that from a young man he served in the wars of Germany and Flanders successfully dueled with Colonel Forgatz, estimated then the most outspoken German swordsman in 1632 was Lieutenant Colonel of the General Piccolomini, and ritrovossi the famous Battle of L�tzen, where he died the king of Sweden, and in which he reported despite a serious wound. Just healed he returned to Italy, where, as a general, he commanded the cavalry of the Duke of Parma in the move which these undertaken in favor of the French against the Spaniards, but in 1635, being in the field below Valencia hit musket finished his glorious career. See Capellari Vivaro (\Campidoglio Veneto�, Class VII, Codes of Marciana 15-18).\nWe read in the \Diaries\ of Hyperplasia (to Ms. Marciana): \April 4, 1726, at hore and a half at night, Mr. Anzolo Sonzogno drowned, et with shot in the head, in S. M. Formosa from the Bridge of ca 'Avogadro'.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4364636° N

Longitude: 12.3407995° E