Dam bridge,
\nview from Monte San Salvatore <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/vedibissone.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vistadabissone.jpg\" "\\"Vistadabissone\\"")
<\/span><\/div>Dam bridge,
\nview from Bissone without noise barriers <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
In 1871, the Gotthard Railway was founded and with it the St. Gotthard tunnel was started. At the same time, the first sections of railway were laid in Ticino, and in 1874 the Bellinzona-Biasca, Bellinzona-Locarno and Lugano-Chiasso lines were opened. The bridge-dam had to be widened to place a track on it, which was doubled up in 1947 with a further enlargement. The arrival of the motorway in the 1960s and 1970s led to yet another extension which resulted in the width of the causeway reaching 45 metres.<\/p>\n
This stele, designed by two descendants of Pasquale Lucchini, architects Aldo Lucchini and Raoul Casella Lucchini, was erected upon the centenary of the bridge-dam.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/vedibissone.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pasquale-Lucchini-di-Montagnola-1798-1892-.jpg\" "\\"Pasquale")
<\/span><\/div>Pasquale Lucchini of Montagnola (1798-1892) <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/vedibissone.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_13-Ponte-diga-Stele.jpg\" "\\"thumbnail_13-Ponte")
<\/span><\/div>Bissone – Stele,
\nin memory of Pasquale Lucchini <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>The banks of the Ceresio joined no longer adversarial with the Melide Bridge Dam the eve of the nation\u2019s auspicious day 1848 PASQUALE LUCCHINI the path of nations matured for the Saint Gotthard the helical tunnels anticipating salient points inside the arduous bowels of the Alps<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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