Il Viaggio di Marco a Italia
The Many Bridges Of Venice
Venice has over 400 bridges in it including three large ones over the Grand Canal (Ponte degli Scalzi, Ponte di Rialto, Ponte dell'Academia). By the way, "Ponte" means "bridge" and "di", "degli", and "dell'" are all forms of "of the".
Venice used to not have any bridges and was over 100 separate pieces of "land". This was primarily as a defense against invasion. Before the bridges, Venice had 10000 gondoliers. Now there are but 400.
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