The Ponte della Paglia at sunset: the Gothic balustrade and, in the background, the Doge’s Palace Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Ponte della Paglia looks like one of the many Venetian bridges, broad and crowded, but it is one of the oldest in the city: the 15th-century Cronaca Savina records it as the first built in stone instead of wood, during the dogate of Giovanni Dolfin, between 1356 and 1361.
