Ponte S. Lorenzo
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Overview of Bridge
The Ponte S. Lorenzo was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de S. Lorenzo bridging a gap which is 14.66 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 16 steps, on the south side there are 16 steps. This results in a total of 32 steps. The height of a typical step is 14 meters, the thickness of a step is about 48 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 4.35 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 4.35 meters wide and 4.75 meters in length for a total area of about 20.66 meters. The summit is paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Colonnette railing is made of Pietra d'Istria and is about 27.00 meters wide is about 0.90 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.47 meters to the North and 0.6 meters to the South.
History
The following is any history we have regarding the bridge's origins:
. The church of S. Lorenzo was erected by the family Partecipazio, and up dall'854 Roman of the same family there beside founded a monastery of Benedictine nuns, who afterwards joined by some houses pei monks who ran the sisters, according to the custom of the times. Destroyed the church and the double monastery in a terrible fire in 1105, began at once to rifabbricarli hand, and ristaurarono the end of the fifteenth century, and the beginning of the sixteenth. The church incominciossi to reduce nell'attual form the year 1592 on the design of Simeon Sister, and was completed in 1602. In 1810, when the monastery was suppressed, and in 1817 it opened again, avendosi reduced to the monastery from 1812 to the House of Industry. Blind alley in the ancient church of S. Lorenzo was buried the famous traveler Marco Polo, who, by his will 10 January 1323 M. V. in acts Giovanni Giustiniani rector of St. Proculus, and did good to this monastery where (as he stated \meam eligo sepulturam.\
Location
The bridge is located at the following coordinates:
Latitude: 45.437011° N
Longitude: 12.3443681° E