Ponte del Pestrin

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

Overview of Bridge

The Ponte del Pestrin , constructed in 1920, was built primarily using Metallo. It crosses the Rio de Ca' Garzoni bridging a gap which is 4.81 meters. The bridge is not a crooked bridge. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of San Marco and on the southern side is also San Marco .There are 2 ramps. On the north side there are 7 steps, on the south side there are 8 steps. This results in a total of 15 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 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 2.35 meters wide and 9.68 meters in length for a total area of about 22.75 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 4.50 meters wide is about 0.87 meters tall. Finally, the bridge protrudes 0 meters to the North and 0 meters to the South.

History

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

�to S. Stefano. From a \Pestrino\ (the place where milk is sold with an adjoining stall Armente, which existed on this site until the fifteenth century, as the Sabellico, after speaking of the church and convent of St. Stephen, continues: \In the face coemeterium; mox east vicus cum bubulis stabulis et lacte omnifariam venal. \the\ Calle del Pestrin �St. Stephen speaks to the Chronicle of Barbo year 1540:\ In d. mill.o Adi ... lujo, de night, fuogo entered in cha Bembo in St. Stephano in Calle del Pestrin, what the house passes on the salizzada of Ferry de S. Toma, et bruso throughout the house with great loss of some vesini, et some magazines await from oio them as if dise be de mr ZMA Zonta them what they fo robbadi. \In 1855 he was re-opened the old passage at the\ Bridge of Pestrin ', which, by means of the \Foundation Narisi,\ put the' Court of the Tree. \Other roads Venice took its name from the next pestrini, among which we like to recall that of S. Maria Formosa, not far from a palace still owned by a branch of the patrician family Morosini, so said \from Pestrin.\ Peter says in one of his Paraleoni epistle that having a FIATA a major fire broke out in the palace, he had to flee to a maid, with a child in her arms, over the top of a tower, which served as a convenient observatory in the family. Already the flames were about to invade also that last place of salvation, when a sailor of Candia, very expert in rocket, grabbed a bow and shot an arrow toward the tower, appesovi a long wire, which was sent down with the maid to pull on a string, and then Glue a thick rope cord, which attacked the sailor speedily ascended, and then fell to the ground, leading to safety maid and child. Grevembroch offers us a drawing of a well-curb Arab-Byzantine style, which existed in the \Court of Pestrin� in S. Maria Formosa. 'art' Pestrineri 'body was erected in March 30, 1656, and raccoglievasi in the church of St. Matthew the Rialto altar of St. Joseph.

Location

The bridge is located at the following coordinates:

Latitude: 45.4347566° N

Longitude: 12.3304399° E