Venice's bridges

It’s quite impossible to count Venice’s bridge: they’re 354! This city has an important relation with its bridges because they are necessary to its survival, they connect the different areas of the city and they make possible easy movements between one zone to other. Venetian made a necessity become the main feature of their city: Venice is so characteristic thanks to all these half moons that you can see on its canals. The most known bridge it’s the Bridge of Sighs, but few people knows that this name doesn’t come from the languid sights of the lovers that passing under this bridge swear eternal love to each other. Quite the opposite! The bridge takes its name from the sights of the condemned to death, that were brought to the near prison passing through this bridge, and looking for the last time the city from the little windows, they sadly sighted. The newest bridge of Venice, the spectacular Bridge of the Constitution, has been projected and built by the famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The Bridge, commissioned in 1997, after a long time due to some mistakes in its design, has been opened to the public in 2008 and only after one year he received the definitive technical approbation.