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   From: Ken@invalid.news.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:46:56 -0700, poldy  wrote:   
      
   >When I think of Andalucia, I remember the story about the Puerto del    
   >Suspiro del Moro, the way the sultan left Granada after being kicked out.   
   >   
   >Then of course there's the Ponte dei Sospiri in Venice.   
   >   
   >Different kind of sigh but interesting that two different places evoked    
   >similar responses.   
      
      
   A pretty similar kind of sigh. The Ponte dei Sospiri is a bridge   
   connecting the Palazzo Dogale with the prison cells. It's not called   
   the "bridge of sighs" because of any sighs of people sighing when   
   looking at it from the outside.It has a small window in it, and   
   prisoners were said to sigh as they crossed the bridge, looked out the   
   window, and saw their last glimpse of daylight before being locked up.   
      
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