Trieste, Italy -- Grand Canal
Antonella Rimbaldo is credited with the photo on this textured used postcard produced by Diecisettanta.com and shared by a friend. The picture with reflections is beautiful and the textured cardstock makes it look almost like a watercolor painting instead of a photograph.
The canal is located in the center of Trieste about halfway between the railway station and the Piazza Unità d’Italia. Built between 1754 and 1756 it is a navigable canal. Today there are two bridges and a pedestrian walkway crossing the canal. The Red Bridge was of wood in 1756 and painted red. It was later rebuilt in iron but retained its name. The Green Bridge was built in iron in 1858. In 1904 a second bridge, called the White Bridge, was added next to the Green Bridge for the railway. When the bridges were built they could revolve or open to let sailing ships pass through. These movable bridges were later replaced by masonry bridges that only allow the passage of small boats at low tide. The Red Bridge was replaced in 1925 and the Green and White bridges were replaced and combined to make a single structure in 1950. The approximately 80 ft or 25 m long pedestrian stone and steel bridge opened in 2013. It has 4 ft or 120 cm high unbreakable glass parapets and handrails on both sides and is illuminated with LED lights.
The salt pans were buried to allow more urban development and also so that boats could come directly into the city to unload their goods. Originally the canal was longer than it is now. Rubble from demolition in the old city was used to bury the terminal part of the canal in 1934.
As always, thank you, to a friend for sending the card.
For additional information, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Grande_(Trieste)
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