Ponte de l'Ospedaletto

Basic Information
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Canal Crossed
Handicapped Accessible?
Length (m)
Width (m)
Minimum Height (m)
Latitude (°)
Longitude (°)
Private
Crooked Bridge?

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte de l'Ospedaletto was built primarily using Mattoni e Pietra d'Istria. Since then the bridge was last restored on 01-Jan-99.It crosses the Rio de S. Giovanni Laterano bridging a gap which is 5.96 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 7 steps. This results in a total of 17 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 1.56 meters.The steps are paved with Trachite. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 2.59 meters wide and 1.94 meters in length for a total area of about 5.02 meters. The summit is paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. The bridge's Vuoto Decorato railing is made of Metallo and is about 4.00 meters wide is about 0.93 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0.35 meters to the North and 2.17 meters to the South.

History

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

�Saints John and Paul. This small hospital, or small hospital, was founded in 1527 by the surgeon Gualtieri in a place that was called the military exertions by \Target.\ Here gathered the sick, and after a fair famine they had multiplied enormously in our city, and afterwards they were joined by orphans. Very deserving of the pious place became S. Jerome Miani, and also, as it is known, S. Ignatius Loyola. The adjoining church, built in L528 under the title of S. Maria dei Derelitti, was rebuilt in 1674 for bonded Bartolammeo Carnioni, haberdasher in \haberdashery S. Savior \in the name of the Ostrich, on the design of Baldassare Longhena, who shall overloaded the facade of marble and sculptures. The hospitable, also rebuilt on the design of Matteo Lucchesi, lasted until 1807, when it was reduced to a House of Refuge for old men and needy and helpless. In our time had a magnification. Now, for the new path laid behind the apse of the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, the \Sottoportico and Calle dell'Ospedaletto\ were closed. He says that once a chronicle \It contained the brand all'Ospedaletto Santi Giovanni e Paolo in the house on which starts to San Marco.\ The Gallicciolli, remembering that even in 'its time you had a free home minister brand, believes that there is minted coins eroded, or \maggiorine,\ that is mixed with copper. But it is certain that there is only melted the gold attendant to the mint, since the description of the Contrada di Santa Maria Formosa 1661 marks around the pel '\Ospedaletto\ the \Foundry of the brand,\ as well as the homes of Thomas Premuda, Lattanzio Zucconi, and Alessandro Rizzo, granted to them \for loading the foundry.\ And \Notatori of Gradenigo\ so they say in the May 15, 1771: \Reduced falling outside the walls of the enclosure where the public is purified and refined gold attendant to the minting of coins varied in proportion to the weight of similar metal, ordered the Their Excellencies Superintendents Above the Mint that are completely renovated and remittances, ristaurando also full of very prejudiced et infracidito. \ This situation, adjacent to Riding behind the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, is not far from Fondamente Nuove.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.438318° N

Longitude: 12.3427467° E