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Venice: Su e Zo per i Ponti!

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UP AND DOWN THE BRIDGE

Over one hundred years ago the baron French Pierre Fredi de Coubertin said: "The important one is not to win, but to participate. As the thing most important in the life it is not the triumph but the struggle. The main point is not to have conquered something, but to have fought well. And this the witticism that anchors today accompanies the modern Olympiads and we adds us, it also accompanies every year her "Su e Zo par I ponti", the non competitive march among calluses, fields and bridges of the lagoon city.

The idea of the "On and Up for the bridges" it was born for making to live Venice in different way to all the participants that every year crowds our city. There are not the athletes professionals that give "shiny" to the march but groups of scolaresche, of adults, of children and of elderly coming from every part of Italy, of Europe, of the world. The marchers know the time of departure, fixed for the 10, not that of arrival. You "competition", in fact, it develops him in absolute calm, because the important one is not to win, but to be together, making even new friends. This way it is easier to meet groups of boys that take advantage for making the turn of the bacari (the cafes typical of Venice), that to see them busy to maintain times and charts of march. And' an authentic "serpentone" human that of the "On and Up for the bridges" made every year of thousand of participants, (the result of the registrations is devolved all in beneficence), that confirms the goodness and the continuous success of the initiative.