Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy Oct 27, 2022

Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy

Beneath Venice"s Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs) is a popular place to kiss your beloved as a gondolier guides you through the city"s canals. But the sighs that the name refers to aren"t from staring into your darling"s eyes. The enclosed bridge, completed in 1600, connects the Prigioni Nuove (New Prison) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge"s Palace, and it is said that a prisoner"s last look at beautiful Venice would be from that bridge. And that"s reason enough to sigh indeed.

© Doug Pearson/Alamy

palette

Today in History

Oct 27, 2018Don’t get lost in there
Oct 27, 2019A festival of lights in India
Oct 27, 2020A bridge of Madison County
Oct 27, 2021Pumpkin patch
Oct 27, 2023Sligachan Old Bridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Oct 27, 2024Polar Bear Week
Oct 27, 2025Thick-billed raven, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Oct 23, 2019Polar bear capital of the world
Nov 17, 2025National Take a Hike Day
Nov 7, 2018A triumph of light
Dec 16, 2022Atlanta Botanical Garden
May 30, 2018‘The memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever’
Mar 15, 2020Celebrating 200 years of statehood
Jul 13, 2019Batten down the hatches
Nov 15, 2018‘Ocian in view! O! The joy.’
Sep 11, 2020In honor of those we ve lost
Feb 4, 2018Male kori bustard, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Sep 3, 2023Skyscraper Day
Aug 4, 2019Pups of the prairie
Mar 6, 2019Dreaming of the Tyrrhenian Sea
Nov 28, 2025Celebrating Native American Heritage Day
Aug 16, 2023Overseas Highway, Florida Keys
Sep 7, 2024National Hummingbird Day
Jun 7, 2022Haaga Rhododendron Park
Apr 26, 2019Happy Arbor Day!
Aug 17, 2019The buzz about bees
Mar 19, 2020Sunburst at Angkor
Sep 30, 2018Aw shucks, it’s oyster season in Galway
Nov 11, 2019On a Healing Field for Veterans Day
Jun 18, 2018Here, fishy!
Jan 1, 2019New Year’s Day in the land of the rising sun
Jan 29, 2018Vacuum Chamber 5 at Glenn Research Center
Jul 14, 2023Shark Awareness Day
Dec 14, 2024Christmas Bird Count turns 125
Feb 24, 2020Wind horses carry wishes for a new year
Jul 21, 2019A peek behind the royal curtain
Nov 6, 2021World Numbat Day