Bridge of Sighs and around the world, as well as to other structures. See Bridge of Sighs (disambiguation). The 1861 opera "Le pont des soupirs" by Jacques Offenbach features the bridge, as does the song "Venice" by Gibraltarian band Melon Diesel. "Bridge of Sighs" is also both a 1974 album and song by English musician Robin Trower. Bridge of Sighs The Bridge of Sighs (Italian and ) is a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison ("Prigioni Nuove") to the
In Praise of Limestone kept in the writing of a new work. In Praise of Limestone "In Praise of Limestone" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in Italy in May 1948. Central to his canon and one of Auden's finest poems, it has been the subject of diverse scholarly interpretations. Auden's limestone landscape has been interpreted as an allegory of Mediterranean civilization and of the human body. The poem, "sui generis", is not easily classified. As a topographical poem, it describes a landscape and infuses it with meaning. It has been called the "first … postmodern pastoral". In a letter, Auden wrote