Constitution Bridge
The Ponte della Costituzione—better known as the “Calatrava Bridge”—is the fourth bridge across Venice’s Grand Canal, linking the railway station area of Stazione Santa Lucia to Piazzale Roma, the city’s main arrival point by road. It traces its start to a June 1999 preliminary plan from the Municipality of Venice, and later that year the municipality commissioned Santiago Calatrava in November 1999 to design a new crossing. Calatrava’s solution is an arched truss bridge built off-site and then moved into position: the bridge was put in place in 2007, amid protests by both politicians and the public. The structure is defined by a radius of 180 metres (about 590 feet), with a central arch, two side arches, and two lower arches. …
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