Ponte del Paradiso: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Revision as of 21:13, 31 May 2020 edit Cewbot (talk \| contribs) Bots 6,996,433 edits m Normalize {{Multiple issues}}: Remove {{Multiple issues}} for only 1 maintenance template(s): Notability ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 06:42, 8 December 2023 edit undo Cewbot (talk \| contribs) Bots 6,996,433 edits m Normalize {{Multiple issues}}: Remove {{Multiple issues}} for only 1 maintenance template: Notability
(5 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown)
Line 1: {{notability\|Places\|date=July 2015}} ~~{{Orphan\|date=January 2017}}~~ {{Infobox bridge Line 102 ⟶ 101: [[Image:Madonna Ponte del Paradiso (Venice).jpg\|thumb\|left\|The Arco del Paradiso as seen from the canal]] The '''Ponte del Paradiso''' is a bridge located in Venice, [[Italy]]. Crossing the Rio del Mondo Novo, the bridge is almost entirely constructed out of [[Istrian stone]] bricks while the steps are paved with [[Trachyte]].<ref name="Venipedia">{{cite web \|title=Ponte del Paradiso \|url=http://www.venipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ponte_del_Paradiso \|website=Venipedia \|~~accessdate~~access-date=25 February 2019}}</ref> It is located within [[Castello, Venice\|Castello]], the largest of the Venetian [[~~Sestiere\|sestieres~~sestiere]]s. The bridge is known for the unique arch on its southern side serving as an entrance to the Calle del Paradiso, an alley famous for its wooden overhanging eaves. <ref>{{cite book \|title=Top 10 Venice \|date=2002 \|publisher=Eyewitness Travel}}</ref> == The Name == According to Nuova encyclopedia Italiana:<ref>Gerolamo Boccardio e Stefano Pagliani, Nuova enciclopedia italiana, Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, Italia, p. 38.</ref> "[its] called because the patrician Paradiso family owned some houses in the area". Instead, the historian Tassini<ref>Giuseppe Tassini, Curiosità Veneziane, ovvero origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia., Venezia, Filippi, 1970.</ref> mentions the "patrician Paradiso family" but also remembers that it did not appear to own buildings in the area. Sources such as ASVE<ref>L’Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASVE): Indice Generale, vol. I, Venenezia, 1937, 75. Indice Cittadinanze Originarie, Avogaria di Comun, b. 368. Cc 1-28.</ref>(1937), Sanudo<ref>Guglielmo Berchet, Nicolò Barozzi e Marco Allegri (a cura di), I Diari1 di Marino Sanuto, vol. LVIII, Venezia, 1903, pp. 296, 301, 357.</ref>(1970) and Bellavitis <ref>Anna Bellavitis, Identité, mariage, mobilité sociale. Citoyennes et citoyens à Venise au XVIe&siècle, Rome, École Française de Rome, 2001, pp. 83-84.</ref> cite the birth of another rich Paradiso family in this city, now descended from Jewish converts such as Marco Paradiso and his son Francesco Paradiso (Jacob Meshulam and Saloman Meshulam).<ref>Francesca Medioli, Archivio Veneto. Sesta serie, n. 5, Venezia, 2013, p. 142.</ref> == Arco del Paradiso == Above the bridge's southern doorway lies the Arco del Paradiso, also referred to as The Madonna Arch, is a carefully sculptured [[Gothic architecture\|Gothic]]-style arch depicting a [[Madonna (art)\|Madonna]] at whose feet rests a friar and a couple on the canal side and inward side respectively. To either side are the arms of the Mocenigo and Foscari families, likely commemorating a marriage between the two in 1491. <ref>{{cite web \|title=Arco del Paradiso \|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/360/ \|publisher=UNESCO \|~~accessdate~~access-date=25 February 2019}}</ref> The arch was previously in poor condition until a restoration project ~~lead~~led by UNESCO lasting from 1993 until 1994. == References == <references /> {{~~Commonscat~~Commons category\|Ponte del Paradiso (Venice)}} {{coord\|45.4380\|N\|12.3338\|E\|source:wikidata\|display=title}} [[Category:Bridges in Venice\|Paradiso]]