Ponte Vecchio


The first wooden construction is from 972 but it was destroyed by a flood in 1117. It was redone in stone but it was devastated again in 1332 by a fire and collapsed again in 1333. The current structure was built in 1345 from a design by Neri di Fioravante and has demonstrated a really strong stability, since it has passed through several floods and wars eversince. To the left of the bridge, above the shops, runs a long corridor (built in 1565 under the orders of Cosimo I De' Medici) which crosses the bridge and connects the Uffizi Gallery with Palazzo Pitti.




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