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Gallery 2nd picture

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The 2nd picture in the gallery doesn't look like the Bridge of Sighs. Its too low on the river, could just be an illusion, but I cannot confirm that it is the bridge of sighs. NamelessLameless (talk) 16:45, 23 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Wrong date for construction.

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The article says that the bridge was built in 1600. This is surely wrong. The website for the Doge's palace says that it was commissioned in 1602:

The bridge was built in the early 17th century, at the same time as the renovation of the prisons in the Doge’s Palace in Venice, following the great fire that devastated the palace in 1577.

The construction was commissioned in 1602 by Doge Marino Grimani to the Italo-Swiss architect Antonio Contin, nephew of Antonio Da Ponte, to whom we owe the construction of the Rialto Bridge.

Earnulf Gery (talk) 09:59, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Gallery 2nd picture

Wrong date for construction.