






VIA GARIBALDI BRIDGE IN CASTELFRANCO VENETO
Progetto
Restoration and consolidation project
Luogo
Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
Date
2020
Cliente
Castelfranco Veneto Municipality
Superficie
70 square meters
Along the ancient city walls of Castelfranco Veneto, located on the city’s north-south axis in a median position, is the Via Garibaldi Bridge, also known as the Beghi Bridge. Built around the middle of the 13th century, initially in wood then with a more solid stone and brick layout, it took on its present structure only in the second half of the 19th century. The bridge is of considerable importance as a vehicular access route to the historic center from Piazza Giorgione, since the only other bridge that can be used for this purpose is the Porta Vicenza bridge (called “del Musile”), while the other two are for pedestrian access only. Over the years it has been subjected to numerous alterations as a result of installing technological networks to the city center, which have created significant damage to its structure and load-bearing capacity, to the point of causing it to break through. During the design phase, it was considered a priority not to distort the structure of the historic bridge, reconciling the static needs with the preservation of the material corpus of the same through a new reversible reinforcement structure which is not visible from the street or the square. Recovered materials were reused and, where necessary, supplemented with new ones similar to the originals. Stratigraphic studies have documented the presence of remnants of ancient masonry structures at the bottom of the canal that could coincide with the foundations of the 16th-century bridge. The remnants were surveyed, analyzed and preserved under the new foundation slab. The new structure actually only partially intercepts one of the findings, the smaller remnant, which is located under the archway.