VENICE | NO FLOATING BRIDGE BETWEEN THE FUND NINE AND THE ISLAND OF SAN MICHELE – ANTENNA TRE
08/10/2021 VENICE – Also this year, as already in 2020 a Covid cause, the traditional boat bridge will not be built to connect, the first days of November, on the occasion of the feast of All Saints and the anniversary of the dead, the Fondamente Nove at the cemetery of San Michele, as a tribute from the city to the dead. || There will not be in Venice, not even this year, the pontoon bridge to connect the Fondamente Nove to the monumental cemetery of the city that of San Michele in Isola. A gesture of homage from the Venetian city, and from the municipal administration, to whom they left us that had been restored, by the will of the mayor Luigi Brugnaro, in 2019, a few months before the start of the pandemic. Thus an ancient Venetian tradition had been recovered that began in the past centuries, on the occasion of the feast of All Saints and the commemoration of the dead, and then abruptly interrupted in 1950, up to 2019. A bridge whose images, two years ago, they had gone around the world, with the inauguration and blessing of the Patriarch, for its high symbolic value and the meaning of this gesture. Last year, then, there was the renunciation due to Covid, this year, however, given the improvement in the epidemiological situation, some think that the tradition could be maintained again. Instead, both the health emergency and the costs that had to be faced still advised us to act with the utmost caution. And the bridge 407 meters long and 15.5 meters wide, assembled by the Insula company is not there. The structure always comes with modular elements such as those already used on the occasion of the votive bridge of the Redentore, the Festa della Salute and the Venice Marathon. The votive bridge will almost certainly return boats on November 21st, on the occasion of the Feast of the Madonna della Salute so dear to the Venetians, as long as the provisions to deal with the health emergency allow it. (Report by Lorenzo Mayer)