Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Cycle 2 Week 7

A famous bridge that I know  of is the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy. The inventors were people like

Jacopo SansovinoPalladio and Vignola. Another person that was said to have helped was the legendary Michelangelo. The Rialto is an arch bridge and it is made out of stone. The length of the bridge is 94.5 feet and that is  28.8 meters


Fun Facts:
The present stone bridge, a single span designed by Antonio da Ponte, was finally completed in 1591.
It was partly burnt in the revolt led by Bajamonte Tiepolo in 1310.
In 1444 it collapsed under the weight of a crowd watching a boat parade and it collapsed again in 1524.

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