General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Truss arch bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Pedestrian bridge (footbridge) |
| Material: |
Timber bridge |
| Plan view: |
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Location
| Location: |
Dorsoduro, Venezia-Murano-Burano, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy San Marco, Venezia-Murano-Burano, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 45° 25' 54" N 12° 19' 44" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| span | 48 m | |
| length | 48 m | |
| number of spans | 1 |
Materials
| arch |
glued laminated timber (glulam)
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Notes
Built as a temporary bridge to replace an iron bridge built by the Austrians and with insufficient clearance for the new vaporetti boats. However, the bridge was never replaced by another bridge and still serves today.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges to span the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, which from 1807 to 2004 was housed in the Scuola della Carità together with the Gallerie dell'Accademia, which is still there. The bridge links the sestieri of Dorsoduro and San Marco.
A bridge on the site was first suggested as early as 1488. The provveditore Luca Trum proposed in the Council to build two bridges across the Grand Canal, one here and the other at Santa Sofia. The members of the Council, however, laughed at him, and the motion was not even put to the vote. The original steel structure, designed by Alfred Neville, opened on 20 November 1854, but was demolished and replaced by a wooden bridge designed by Eugenio Miozzi and opened in 1933, despite widespread hopes for a stone bridge. In 1986, the total replacement of the wooden elements was necessary, with the insertion of metal arches capable of supporting the structure better.
Lovers have attempted to attach padlocks ("love locks") to the metal hand rails of the bridge, but Venetian authorities have successfully cracked down on this.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Ponte dell''Accademia" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2010): Brief considerations on the Accademia Bridge in Venice. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010, pp. 810-811.
- (1999): Tierra sobre el agua. Visión histórica universal de los puentes. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), pp. 191.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20002233 - Published on:
10/11/2001 - Last updated on:
10/06/2023
