b'On the way back to the hotel, we walked by Il Ponte Dei Sospiri (The Bridge of Sighs). It stood there, silent and eerie. This bridge, which connected the tribunal to the infamous Venetian prisons known as I Piombi, carried the condemned prisoners to their jail. Their sighs of despair, as they took one last look at the city from the bars of the windows on the bridge, gave the bridge its name. In spite of the fact that these prisons were deemed inescapable, legend has it that the famous Casanova fled to freedom from his jailers at I Piombi. It is said that rather than digging underground, he fled at night over the rooops. Where there is a will, there is a way!46'