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Literature | Bridge of Sighs which connects the palace of the Doge with the state prisons of Venice. Over this bridge the state prisoners were conveyed from the judgment-hall to the place of execution. "I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand." Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, iv. 1: Waterloo Bridge, in London, used, some years ago, when suicides were frequent there, to be called The Bridge of Sighs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The Bridge of Sighs or Ponte de Sospiri is in Venice. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace.
The bridge was built in the 16th century and only given the name Bridge of Sighs in the 19th century, by Lord Byron.
The bridge is of white marble. Windows with stone bars are on the summit of this enclosed bridge. The name comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice out the window before being taken down to their cells.
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Movie/TV Titles | Bridge of Sighs (1936) The Bridge of Sighs (1925) Bridge of Sighs (1901) | |
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 | Sketch by moonlight of Bridge of Sighs, Venice. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Bridge of Sighs, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Words within the letters "b-d-e-f-g-g-h-i-i-o-r-s-s" | |
-4 letters: disgorges, dogfishes. | |
-5 letters: disgorge, disrobes, dreggish, fibroids, fibroses, fibrosis, firedogs, fishgigs, hidroses, hidrosis, ossified, ossifier, rosefish. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)B R I D G E   O F   S I G H S |
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