The bridge of Castel Vecchio , also known as Scaliger Bridge is a bridge in Verona over the river Adige , part of the fortress of Castelvecchio , which is considered his most daring and admirable medieval Verona. Designers The name of the man who built the bridge is not known, but a document of 1495 (so posthumously to its construction more than a century) as the author seems to indicate a certain Guglielmo Bevilacqua, the protagonist, among other things, a legend collected by the reporter Jerome by the Court in his Historia di Verona : Can Grande della Scala II donated it to Bevilacqua held a sword of St. Martin , which until then had been kept in the church, that would have been between the walls of Castelvecchio . Some scholars have hypothesised, based on the similarities between this bridge and the said Ship , a common authorship, then attributed to Giovanni da Ferrara and James from Gozo. History The bridge after the devastation of World War II. The bridge was built between 1354 and 1356 under the rule of Can Grande della Scala II in order to ensure the costruenda fortress of Castelvecchio an escape route to the Tyrol in case there had been a revolt on the part of one of the warring factions inside the city. The robustness of the bridge allowed him to pass unscathed five centuries until, in 1802 , the French, following the Treaty of Luneville , cut his tower on the campaign and eliminated the battlements, as previously done for the towers of the castle to install in it the batteries of cannon, used in tristementi notes Pasque Verona , built by the Austrians in 1820 on the orders of Emperor Francis I of Austria . The bridge was blown up April 24th 1945 by the retreating Germans, along with all the other bridges in Verona , including the Roman stone bridge . Immediately after the war it was decided to rebuild it along with other important monuments of the city lost during the Second World War . They were in charge of the reconstruction project of the new superintendent to the monuments of Verona Piero Gazzola , the architect Libero Cecchini and the engineer Alberto Minghetti, which, given that a large part of the bridge was preserved despite the violent explosions, they decided, supported by public opinion, to restore the situation prior to the explosion rather than build a bridge from scratch . The first work began in late 1945 and saw the eviction of the River Adige from the rubble, while in the second phase, which began in 1949 , the stone blocks found intact were relocated to their original location, thanks to the photographic documentation and relief made shortly before the destruction of the bridge at La Scala. In addition, thanks to the study of the colors of the stone, you could go back to the quarry from which the blocks were extracted in the Middle Ages, located in the territory of San Giorgio di Valpolicella, which were dug out so the new stones that would replace the damaged original. The original brick, consisting of various lands and of unequal size, came instead from different furnaces, it was decided to procure a new one from construction sites and demolition of buildings in different furnaces Verona and Mantua. The reconstruction work only ended July 20, 1951. For the reconstruction of the bridge was important the work of the Free Cecchini who followed the work from 1949 to 1951, creating the outer rings of the three great arches and marble from Verona provendenti Valpolicella (Verona red, pink cloud, harrier) and the crenellated walls overlying clay. Structure the arches of the bridge are extremely obvious. The bridge, belonging to the complex of Castelvecchio , appears to be a daring work for the period in which it was built, with the right arch having a light even 48.69 meters, while the two smaller arches have lights 29,15 and 24 meters. The different widths of the arches and the various piers of the pylons were studied in relation to the different forces of the water in this river bend, resulting in this new and gothic figure. The base of the pillars and arched lintels, thus the lower part of the structure, are made ââof stone, while the remaining part of the bridge is built of brick, a material that characterizes all medieval monuments of Verona. The two pylons with a pentagonal base, billfish upstream to facilitate the flow of the waters of the Adige , are extremely massive, and the eldest was fifteen enriched by Corinthian capitals and fragments of Roman bas-reliefs. The path along the bridge, which stretches for over one hundred and twenty feet wide and more than six, is defended by crenellated walls dovetail, with walkways and loopholes, as well as the imposing tower towards the city and a tower, partially eliminated by France in the nineteenth century towards the campaign.
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