Ponte Foscarini

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Basic Information
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Canal Crossed
Handicapped Accessible?
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Private
Crooked Bridge?

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte Foscarini was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de S. Margherita bridging a gap which is 13.67 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of Dorsoduro and on the southern side is also Dorsoduro .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 8 steps, on the south side there are 8 steps. This results in a total of 16 steps. The height of a typical step is 14 meters, the thickness of a step is about 55 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 4.4 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 4.4 meters wide and 5.14 meters in length for a total area of about 22.62 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 27.00 meters wide is about 0.70 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.35 meters to the North and 0.35 meters to the South.

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History

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

�Carmini. From next Foscarini palace, whence King Henry III of France and Poland in 1574 admired the so-called \war of the sticks,\ fought on the bridge subjected. Marsilio from the Cross, in his \History of the public et Vinegia famous entry into the most serene Henry III, King of France and Poland,\ says that, having to do such a war, \there you wanted to find his Majesty, as he had wanted more times , to enjoy yet this other entertainment and amusement, and was reduced later on with them princes and lords in the house of Jacomo clarissimo Foscarini, Ambassador, by the bridge. Announcement was made immediately, otherwise the galley, that all those who montassero on the bridge before the tips cut off to 'their sticks, and on pain of death to those who pulled stones, put his hand to arms, and does cause some turmoil, or other disadvantages, such as other times it's happened, and the captains, the orders of their masters, they were armed guard to prevent all scandals. His Majesty shewn see the windows, which were apparate cloths of gold with its pillows of the same, comparsero in the field by one o'clock side and the other by about two hundred fighters ... and there mounted above the said bridge, two by two, now a part, now the other to make the exhibition, then only just began to pull alquanti shots until much later that clung to the whole frotta, that lasted more than half an hour, scacciandosi now one, now et others down the bridge, and sometimes down again, lowering his adversaries that he had been driven out, giving himself several times the charge in droves different one o'clock side and the other, and also sometimes remaining patrons of the bridge, the result that his Majesty saw this great battle, and enjoyed with its great taste and amusement, which could very well for the beautiful droves that you'll eventually did, and for the great multitude of the combatants fell in the plunging many on the ground, and others rushed in various ways in the water on both sides ... et in gratitude that they had diportati much, they were all winners, giving himself to both parties for a hundred and fifty ducats, and twenty-five of cooling, such as money spent them the one and the other parties in doing dances, hunts for bulls , artificali fires, and others of similar entertainments, each part in its sestiero. \ The quoted Giacomo Foscarini, who hosted in 1574 King Henry III, was brave general and sea, who died in 1602, had a splendid monument in the church of the Carmine. This line of Foscarini went extinct in the prosecutor Pietro, who died in 1745, whose widow Elizabeth Corner gave 3 August 1749 in his palace of the Carmine a wonderful dance party, with music and songs, the most serene family of Modena. This party was represented in an engraving of Filosi.Abbiamo by reporters that the family Foscarini, from which other between our ways appealed, came from Altino, or from Padua, in the year 867, and which formerly was called Cobeschini, but the way change name in 1297, an era in which it remained the Council. He produced various famous people. Evokes compassion the fact of a Antonio, out of this family, which, attending night the English house of the Countess Anne of Arundel, and accused of having secret talks there seize foreign diplomats, was strangled in prison in 1622, but afterwards he was declared innocent. From the same family came in the next century Marco, very learned librarian of the Marciana, built in 1762 to the ducal dignity, which in the palace of the Carmine, which, by inheritance, had passed in his line, he picked up a rich treasure of chronicles homelands. Although you do not possess that the first part of his \History of Literature Veneziana ', it alone is sufficient to make us know the immensity of his talent and his cognizioni.Il\ Bridge Foscarini �Carmini was called also\ the Guori. \ View Carmine (Field, Rio.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4338714° N

Longitude: 12.3217076° E