Venice liberty bridge building

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When and how was the liberty bridge built?

It was called the bridge of freedom because it freed the Venetians from the obligation to use a boat to reach the mainland.

In fact, until ’30 when Mussolini ordered to build a bridge to connect Venice with the mainland, actually Mestre, the citizens of Venice were obliged to take a boat to reach the mainland.

For poor people it was expensive, so, many Venetians were born and died in Venice without the possibility of seeing anything but Venice.

Venice liberty bridge building

Bridge of liberty in 1930 venice

In 1929, thanks to the engineer Vittorio Umberto Fantucci, was born the project that, carefully revised and modified by the engineer Eugenio Miozzi, will be realized in 1931.

Eugenio Miozzi

The main architect of the bridge writes, Eugenio Miozzi, chief engineer of the city of Venice.

On July 27, 1931 the works for the road connection with the mainland began and were completed on April 25, 1933, after only twenty-one months.

It was a great work.

The bridge that crosses the lagoon, in fact, measures four kilometers long and twenty meters wide.

Other four kilometers of road were built on the marshy ground of the salt marshes to reach the village of Mestre bridge of freedom.

The said bridge remained the longest bridge in the world [at present it is the longest in Italy] and required three hundred kilometers of piles, forty thousand cubic meters of cement, twenty thousand cubic meters of bricks, forty-five thousand tons of cut stone.

After the fall of the Republic and could stand on par with the construction of the famous Murazzi.

Together with the creation of the bridge, they provided for the urban arrangement of the internal road network, creating the Rio Novo.

It shortens the route to St. Mark’s Square by more than two kilometers.

Tthey provided for the construction of the largest garage in the world, which still retains this record; and they provided for the many ancillary works of the new traffic.

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Opening of the Ponte della Libertà bridge in 1933

The two parallel translagunar bridges, the railway bridge and the automobile bridge, represent today the gateways to Venice, by far the most frequented.
However, as Thomas Mann writes in Death in Venice, the back doors remain, since the main entrance is always the admirably sumptuous one of the