Ponte Chiodo

This guide to Ponte Chiodo in Venice explains why this small stone footbridge over the Rio di San Felice never got the handrails every other Venetian bridge eventually gained. It traces the crossing's history as private property once owned by a family named Chiodo, whose name it still carries, and how that private status kept it outside the city's later safety rules. Today the house beside it is a small guesthouse, and its guests are among the few who still cross after dark.