Ponte Lion

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 Lion was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. It crosses the Rio de S. Lorenzo bridging a gap which is 11.29 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 15 steps, on the south side there are 15 steps. This results in a total of 30 steps. The height of a typical step is 14 meters, the thickness of a step is about 42 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 2.53 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 2.53 meters wide and 3.66 meters in length for a total area of about 9.26 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 27.50 meters wide is about 0.91 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 1 meter to the North and 1.1 meters to the South.

History

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

�to S. Lorenzo. Former Lion in Venice was the family, from which, for reasons of trade, in trasportossi Acres of Soria, but when in 1291 the city fell into the hands of the Sultan of Egypt, Dominic, or Domenzone, Lion returned among us with great riches, and as is known, wanted, before entering the harbor, the assurance that he would be elected by the Council. Nicol� Lion, the son of Domenico, Procurator of S. Mark was the one who discovered the conspiracy of Marino Faliero, and who, healed by the power of the miraculous lettuce found in the garden of the Friars Minor Conventual, which offiziavano the church of S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, manufactured the church and the adjoining convent, so called \San Nicoletto of Lettuce,\ making them in 1332 jus patronage of the Procurators of S. Marco \de Ultra,\ and accordandone afterwards, by his will February 13, 1353, M. V. absolute dominion to Minor Conventual. See S. Nicoletto (Calle. A \Vido,\ the prosecutor's nephew Nicholas, was married with Franceschina Morosini, but afterwards cacciolla of the house, and took off for new partner in 1364 Agnesina Coco, the fact which was the reason that his descendants were excluded, as illegitimate , by the Great Council. tells the Barbarian that dissidii between Vido Lions and Franceschina Morosini originated by the command that the first night of the wedding made the husband to the wife of pulling her stockings, to which this answered, \Li Morosini not discalzano Leoni.\ There was Venice in another line of the Lions, who recognized her for a founder Simeon the Great Council elected in 1315, and believed Domenico's brother, or Domenzone. belonged to this that \m. Thoma Lion fo the cl.mo Simon,\ that instrument neck July 30, 1570, in acts of John Figolino NV, took a rent by the nuns of San Lorenzo a home \mail sull'horto of that mon.rio in contr� of St. Severus.\ Here, too, according to the description the S. Severo, lived in 1661 the 'NN. UU. brothers Paul and Lion, \grandchildren of Thomas. Here is the origin of the name given to the\ Lion Bridge, \which leggevasi down a few years ago on the floor Fund its venerable name of the Nuns of S. Lorenzo. Both lines were clear Lioni for men deserving of the country, if you want excepting that Maffeo, the son of Lodovico, \Avogador of the Common,\ and in 1540 Savio di Terra Firma, which , having been found guilty of receiving commission from the King of France to reveal the secrets of the Republic, he fled from Venice, and got the call from all over the domain size of a thousand crowns, and a decree that his descendants to the fourth generation remained free of the nobility. rifugiossi He to the court of France, but did not find any support, so he was forced to mercarsi the board by giving grammar lessons, coming true, says the Capellari, on this occasion, the judgment that the princes love betrayal , but not the treacherous.'s family Lion, of which we have spoken, became extinct in the beginning of the past century. So the nuns rented the building to a branch of the family Diedo, which also occurred in 1802, according to the notifications that year .

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4361693° N

Longitude: 12.3443983° E