Ponte Cappello

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte Cappello was built primarily using Mattoni, Intonaco e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de la Tetta bridging a gap which is 5.61 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 12 steps, on the south side there are 7 steps. This results in a total of 19 steps. The height of a typical step is 13.5 meters, the thickness of a step is about 32 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 1 meter.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 2.12 meters wide and 2.42 meters in length for a total area of about 5.13 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 0.97 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 1.2 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. John Lateran. From the city of Capua, say the chroniclers, many families went to Rome, and among these, the Capuelli, said afterwards Hat, who were admitted to Roman citizenship, but later, having been proscribed by the triumvirs, he removed to Padua, and there at the time of Attila, in Venice, where they were aggregated to the nobility in 1297. Although this family can count on in an ecclesiastical career Peter bishop of Cremona in 1362, and a Benedict Archbishop of Zadar in 1639, in a literary Bernardo, good poet, who appointed is found in the \Orlando Furioso\ of Ariosto, and in the civil magistrates several distinct However shone more in military enterprises. Among many brave warriors will remember that in 1462 and 1465 that Victor was Generalissimo of the Venetians against the Turks, reporting and signal victories, died of grief in 1466, on account of having been beaten by the enemy, he had to care for relatives, a ' honorable monument on the door of the church of S. Elena island. Even a hat Nicholas defeated the Turks at various meetings, preserved Cyprus in 1487 by hostile insults, and in 1490 was reduced to Paros with other places Veneta obedience. Do not forget that last Vincenzo Cappello, five times the general sea, in which the expenditure was built in 1541, the facade of the church of S. Maria Formosa, concerning the \Bridge of the Bands.\ There you can see still the urn and the statue of the hero, while the fa�ade risguardante the Field, built for another testament of Vincenzo Cappello in 1604, ammiransi the busts of other significant actors in the family. Yea it produced the famous White, Grand Duchess of Tuscany died, and gave his name to more than one path of Venice. A branch of the same lived in S. John Lateran in a building adorned of her coat of arms, and appointed by Sansovino in his 'Venice', and from BOSCHINI in the \Rich Minere of Venetian Painting.\ The latter author writes that after the church of St. John Lateran \is Casa Capella, the courtyard of which is all painted by the school of Zilotti.\

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4375255° N

Longitude: 12.3439672° E