Ponte Vecchio originally was a street market of butchers and fishmongers, but after the Medici’s Vasari corridor was built so the family could traverse the bridge in comfort, a 1593 decree by ...

Much like London's Tower Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio was built to replace an earlier bridge. Once dominated by butchers, fishmongers and bakers, the original bridge was washed away during a flood in ...

In the seven centuries since the Ponte Vecchio was first built in Florence, Italy, the bridge has watched the city changing around it, surviving floods, fires and the Nazi invasion in World War II.

Florence's "Old Bridge" - in Italian "Ponte Vecchio" - is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, connecting Via Por Santa Maria to Via de' Guicciardini over the Arno river.

passing over the Arno river via the Ponte Vecchio bridge, one of the city's landmarks. Sign up here. The Uffizi museum, which manages the corridor and oversaw restoration and safety upgrades ...

Ever since it was rebuilt in 1345, Italy’s Ponte Vecchio bridge has endured many hardships. Over the course of hundreds of years, it survived Adolph Hitler’s retreating Nazi army during World ...