Ponte de la Dona Onesta

Venedig · Italia · Bridge

The name of this bridge over the Rio de la Frescada is documented from 1537, and Venetians tell it two ways. The mild version: on an August day two men argued here about the faithfulness of women, and when Jacomo di Campalto claimed that many women are faithful, the other pointed at a small woman's head carved in stone on the house wall beside them and mocked him — there is the only honest woman in the whole world, a head of stone. The head is still set in the wall today. The darker version says the stone face is a stonecutter's wife who took her own life after being violated by a nobleman. An old saying belongs to the bridge too: the day an honest woman crosses it, the bridge will collapse — and it is standing yet.

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Hvor ligger Ponte de la Dona Onesta?

Ponte de la Dona Onesta ligger i Venedig, Italia.

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