Il Bridge of Sighs it was built at the beginning of the XNUMXth century in Istrian stone, following a project by the architect Antonio Contin by order of the Doge Marino Grimani, whose coat of arms is carved there.
The bridge connects the Doge's Palace to the New Prisons and is located behind Piazza San Marco, observable only from due ponti, as well as the gondolas, from Ponte della Canonica and Ponte della Paglia.
It was him attributed this name because legend has it that, at the time of the Serenissima, the prisoners, crossing it, sighed in front of the prospect of seeing the outside world for the last time or another thesis is that the prisoners passing above sighed for the last time before being incarcerated .
