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Title: Bridge of Sighs in Venice
Description: Those sentenced to prison passed from the Doge's palace, on the left, to the prison on the right. Few who were sentenced to time in prison survived their stays. The bridge is known as the bridge of sighs because prisoners would take their last look at the beautiful city of Venice from the windows of this bridge,sighing because they knew they would never see it again.



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