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
Paris in the 16th century art, did not come until the very end of the century with the reign of Henry IV. Through the 16th century, there were only four bridges across the Seine, two on each bank, insufficient for the growing city and the amount of traffic they carried. The Paris bridges at the beginning of the 16th century were largely made of wood, and were frequently washed away in floods or knocked down by ice on the frozen river. The most important bridge was the Pont au Change, which had been built in 1304 under Philip le Bel, and was site where the