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    Why is The Bridge of Sighs so called?

    Question #51760. Asked by mountside.

    MaggieG 5

    		I always understood it was because it led from a court on one side of the canal to a prison on the other, and for many it was their last glimpse of the real world before their incarceration or execution. Hence the sighs.

    Oct 17 04, 12:22 PM

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