Ponte dei Greci

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 dei Greci was built primarily using Mattoni, Intonaco e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de S. Lorenzo bridging a gap which is 11.48 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 10 steps, on the south side there are 13 steps. This results in a total of 23 steps. The height of a typical step is 12 meters, the thickness of a step is about 46 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 2.35 meters.The steps are paved with Asfalto. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 3.6 meters wide and 4.12 meters in length for a total area of about 14.83 meters. The summit is paved with Asfalto. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Vuoto Decorato railing is made of Metallo and is about 3.50 meters wide is about 0.91 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.35 meters to the North and 0 meters to the South.

History

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

. After the victories of Orcano, Amurat I, and Bajazette, many Greeks trasmigrarono between 1400 and 1437 in Venice, where he allowed celebrassero the sacred offices: now in this, and now in the church of the city. Other refugees came among us in 1453 after the conquest of Constantinople, made by Mohammed II, and then it was ordered that all the Greeks were uffiziare the chapel of St. Ursula at the temple of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, and afterwards the church of San Biagio. In 1526 they bought the individuals of that nation's space of land, located in the parish of St. Antonino, and then built a shrine to St. George the Martyr, begun in 1539 and completed in 1573, although he had consecration up from 1564, as the inscription on the outer door. The architect was Sante Lombardo, replaced execution by G. Antonio Chiona. The dome was-constructed in 1571 by Andrea Palladio who Credesi the bell tower in that behalf by a Ongarin Bernardino under the direction of Sister Simeon (years 1587-L592. The facade of this temple was a radical renovations in 1884. At the It contained the same a small monastery of Basilian nuns that was rebuilt in 1691 on the design of Tremignon, where the nuns lasted until 1829. too little distance arose in the seventeenth century, as a legacy of the lawyer Thomas Flangini, a hospital and a school, the longhena renewed in 1678. For more extensive information about the buildings belonging to the Greek colony, and about the history of the same, see how he wrote the very clear comm. Veludo John in the work: \Venice and its lagoons.\ The Greek Church is separated permanently from the womb Catholic, drop the Repubblica.Al \Ponte dei Greci\ stands the palace Zorzi, now Liassidi, that Sansovino in his \Venetia\ says rich \many delights of portraits, et figures in marble and stucco d ' Alessandro Vittoria. \in it as well Havva a valuable\ real \pit of the fifteenth century. At this bridge, on the evening of January 22, 1586 MV was mortally wounded while returning from visiting a sick person, the famous physician and philosopher GB Peranda. See S. Severo (Ponte etc. ..

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4357654° N

Longitude: 12.3443516° E