Ponte Turlona

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte Turlona was built primarily using Legno. It crosses the Rio de la Sensa bridging a gap which is 10.77 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of Cannaregio and on the southern side is also Cannaregio .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 13 steps, on the south side there are 12 steps. This results in a total of 25 steps. The height of a typical step is 17 meters, the thickness of a step is about 39 centimeters, and the width of a step is about 1.92 meters.The steps are paved with Legno. The bridge is not handicapped accessible and it does not have an additional railing. The summit is 1.94 meters wide and 5.8 meters in length for a total area of about 11.25 meters. The summit is paved with Legno. Also, this bridge has 3 arches. The bridge's Vuoto Geometrico railing is made of Legno and is about 10.00 meters wide is about 0.90 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 2.75 meters to the North and 2.6 meters to the South.

History

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

�to S. Jerome. We know that in the sixteenth century the cittadinesca Turloni family lived in S. Polo, and precisely in the street nowadays called \Pezzana\ (see under this name, but he possessed a wrinkle of twenty-four houses in the parish of SS. Ermagora and Fortunato, at St. Jerome. Of these homes speak Sanudo in his Diaries, under date of October 1, 1503, in the following words: \Dapoi Disdar fo much consejo, et veneno do fioi Mr. dil. Zuan Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua Zermani dil, zoveni well laid out and shapely, appointed one Lodovico, the other Frederick, came forward to here. conduta they wished; alozono at cha 'Turlon to St. Hieronimo. \Turloni The family came from the territory Bergamasco, and practiced the art of wool with which acquistossi many riches. Turloni James gave on the occasion the war of Chioggia good part of his faculties to the Republic, which made him ballottare, though without effect, pel Grand Council. Turloni Another James was elected bishop of Trogir. A Gaspare was greatly pleasing to various principles, but mainly Stefan Batory Prince of Transylvania, and then King of Poland, at whose side he fought valiantly against the Turks, a FIATA rescuing the prince himself fell from his horse, and soon to be oppressed by enemies. Filled therefore with honors and riches, he returned to Venice, where he used to walk around the city with a retinue of arrogant and good soldiers, some even committing violence. Having therefore met the enmity of many nobles, including Leonardo Moro, was imprisoned, but afterwards, escaped from prison, exiled in 1599 by the loss of all his faculties. He died in Flanders with the title of Chief Infantry, and he died the family Turloni. Paolo Antonio Labia In 1599 he bought the houses from the IRS that Gaspare owned in St. Jerome, and he restored in 1603, as deduced from a tombstone is still visible on the report. room in one of these houses were represented in 1746 works in music, becoming act on the scene wooden figures, and sing the artists behind the scenes, accompanied by a large orchestra. Groppo in his \Catalogue of dramas for Music recited in the theaters of Venice,\ testifies that in such potea do not see what more noble and grandiose, which cost it the Labia such a large sum, and that everything surpassed the belief of those who do n ' was an eye-witness. The show, which gave him free, he was also honored by the intervention of the Duchess of Modena, which, on account of the war, then lived in this dominant.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4467962° N

Longitude: 12.3268978° E