Ponte dell'Accademia
Wooden arch footbridge over the Grand Canal, built as a temporary fix that never left.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Ponte dell'Accademia in Venice covers the December 1932 scramble to replace the aging iron crossing here, when engineer Eugenio Miozzi threw up a simple wooden arch meant only as a stopgap. You'll hear about the architecture competition for a grand stone replacement that Venice chose a design for and then never built, and how the timbers fared as decades wore on. It's a story about a temporary fix that Venice kept choosing not to undo.
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