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The 8 Best Bridges in San Marco, Veneto
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
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1. Ponte dei Sospiri
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4.5 based on 7,050 reviews
This historic bridge connects the Doge's Palace with its prisons and was named for the condemned prisoners who crossed it to meet their executioners.
Reviewed By Erfurt - Jupiter, United States
The Bridge of Sighs is world renown, it is packed with tourists coming and going, there is a lot of pushing and chaffing going on, everyone wants to take a photo of this scene, and the once who take " selfies " really jam up this beautiful sight best seen from the bridge where this photo was taken..The Bridge of Sighs is made from white limestone passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. A MUST see...
2. Ponte dei Fuseri
3. PONTE PRIVATO
4. Ponte de le Ostreghe
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4.0 based on 1 reviews
5. Ponte di Rialto
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4.0 based on 17,431 reviews
Considered the true heart of Venice, this landmark bridge, characterized by its 24-foot arch, is built on approximately 12,000 wooden pilings that still support the bridge more than 400 years after it was built.
Reviewed By Raffiella11 - Leicestershire, United Kingdom
A vibrant area of the city, full of local venetians going about their daily life, plus the masses of tourists, a great place either by day or even more magical at night when lights from Palazzo's reflecting on the Grande Canale. Originally many hundreds of years ago it was a floating wooden bridge - today a beautiful white marble bridge designed by Antonio Da Ponte. Today it has new stone steps on the outer edges - recently refurbished, gone are the centuries old very worn shiny steps. The inner steps are lined on both sides with tourist shops. The bridge from both sides is now looking so clean, at the base of the bridge, you will see Saints and Madonna’s carved here. Looking south, is the Riva del Vin on the right, wine barges used to moor there, now lined with masses of gondolas and lots of tourist restaurants.North on the right you will see the 16th-century Fondaco dei Tedeschi, formerly the Main Post Office – now a very expensive department store. On the left bank is Fondamenta de la Preson, named the debtor’s prison. The San Polo side of the bridge is the home to fascinating Palazzo’s, narrow alleyways, interesting shops, plus the fruit & vegetable market, and the very smellie fish market, and where the first banks where established.
