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Venice wheelchair users Rialto Bridge accessible Italian tours is the most famous of the bridges that cross the Grand Canal.

In this area, which originally housed the food market, there has always been a canal crossing, at first, a simple bridge of boats, and later a real wooden, made from two inclined ramps with a mobile section in the middle, in order to allow the passage of ships.

Beginning in 1524, artists and architects, including Sansovino, Palladio, and Michelangelo, began submitting blueprints for the new project.

But no plan was chosen until 1588, when municipal architect Antonio da Ponte was awarded the commission.

Interestingly, da Ponte was the uncle of Antonio Contino, architect of Venice's other unmistakable bridge.

Venice wheelchair users Rialto Bridge accessible Italian tours, today, is an elegant, arched stone bridge lined with arcades on each side.

The central archway at its pinnacle, accessed via the wide stairs that rise from either side of the bridge, serves as a lookout perch.

Under the arcades are numerous shops, many of which cater to the tourists who flock here to see this famous bridge and its views of the gondola-filled waterway of the Grand Canal.

Venice wheelchair users Rialto Bridge accessible Italian tours Grand Canal is an upside-down “S” three kilometers long dividing the city into two parts.

Called by many the “most beautiful street in the world”, the Grand Canal is celebrated for both its beauty and uniqueness.

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