Ponte Preti

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 Preti was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio del Pestrin bridging a gap which is 8.87 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 10 steps, on the south side there are 12 steps. This results in a total of 22 steps. The height of a typical step is 13 meters, the thickness of a step is about 45 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 2.07 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 2.35 meters wide and 2.92 meters in length for a total area of about 6.86 meters. The summit is paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Piena railing is made of Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria and is about 28.00 meters wide is about 0.82 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0 meters to the North and 0 meters to the South.

History

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

�to S. Maria Formosa. From the houses chapter of the church of S. Maria Formosa. On a wall at this bridge scorgesi engaged Roman sepulchral urn, which on the one hand bears a sculpture, and on the other the inscription: L. Statio Sabi, Fausto, Et Nataline, L. Statius Prudens, Conliberto, V F. From the houses chapter members said \the Priests' other streets of Venice. And 'well known that every parish church had its own chapter or college presbytery, and that each chapter had some houses granted titrated by the piety of the faithful lest, staying in them, they could always be prepared for the needs of the church and the parish. This reason is clearly explained in the words of the Synod of Patriarch Egidio (1296 comandasi where the titrated dwell in their houses, and sleep at night, \he propter locorum distantiam, ecclesiae debitis clericorum Ministeriis defraudentur.\ Every titrated then had to keep in good order the house that venivagli delivered to residence, which would solevasi dinotare glue sentence of having to keep \in height,\ phrase used in our day, saying he was \in Conzo and in full.\ In process of time, however, the titrated emancipated themselves sometimes from the obligation to live in the houses above, whereupon we find in 1510 ordered by the patriarch Contarini that \houses made of the goods of the church Sieno only inhabited and considered by those to whom they belong, and that use that are destined. What if those to which you do not live there, the other ministers suitable and canonice ordered the dress. If you will be leased, the pros go under renovation, convenient to the church, and are distributed among the ministers quotidie inservientes. \Yea sometimes happened that gave titrated their homes with a rent to families vicious, and even prostitutes, abuse who sought to eradicate the Patriarch Giovanni Trevisan in his first synod held in the year 1564.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4375433° N

Longitude: 12.3401106° E