Ponte Vitturi

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 Vitturi was built primarily using Metallo, Mattoni, Asfalto e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio del Duca e de S. Vidal bridging a gap which is 3.66 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of San Marco and on the southern side is also San Marco .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 7 steps, on the south side there are 7 steps. This results in a total of 14 steps. The height of a typical step is 13 meters, the thickness of a step is about 44 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 1.27 meters.The steps are paved with Asfalto. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 1.68 meters wide and 5.75 meters in length for a total area of about 9.66 meters. The summit is paved with Asfalto. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Vuoto Geometrico railing is made of Metallo and is about 4.00 meters wide is about 0.90 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. Vitale. On the ancient Roman origin, the family Vitturi produced, to say the chroniclers, the tribunes' very clever, witty, proud, and small people. \ We find John Marino, Orlando and Sylvester Vitturi among the nobles who in 1151 signed the act of quitanza made by the Doge Morosini to the nobles of ca 'Basegio. A Daniel Vitturi defeated in 1260 the combined fleet of the Genoese and the Pisans, predating the first eight ships, and five to the latter. A Lampridio was bishop of Trogir in 1315. A John, who was elected in 1510 the administrator in Friuli, in that year broke the enemies at Cormons, in 1513 he was sent to assist the city of Udine threatened by the Germans, taken in 1514 in the general meeting certain Christopher Frangipane in 1527 went to aid of Pope Clement, besieged in Castel S. Angelo, in 1528 he was placed to guard Barletta, and other maritime places of Puglia, Veneto dall'armata won in favor of the French, in 1531, under an accusation \de peculatu,\ fled to Ferdinand, King of the Romans, who made him a knight and captain in Hungary, where he defeated the Turks in 1537, having been called, was made general of the army in the Gulf, in 1539 general superintendent in Candia in 1542 finally colpillo death, and found the tomb in the church of S. Canciano. The family Vitturi is also a glory Lorenzo Archbishop of Candia in 1595, which in famine and plague remembered with exemplary charity to his own subjects. It still has its own coat of arms carved on the shaft inside of the building that S. Vitale appartenevale, and that, by marriage, passed in Veronese patricians.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4326117° N

Longitude: 12.3294704° E