Florence4US Blog » florence viewpoint http://florence4us.com/blog Florence Wallpapers 4 US Travellers Tue, 18 May 2010 10:51:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 On the Ponte Vecchio Bridge in Florence http://florence4us.com/blog/on-the-ponte-vecchio-bridge-in-florence/ http://florence4us.com/blog/on-the-ponte-vecchio-bridge-in-florence/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:06:13 +0000 sfarinel http://florence4us.com/blog/?p=123 The Ponte Vecchio (Italian for Old Bridge)is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe’s oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, but there are far older segmental arch bridges such as Alconétar Bridge. The Ponte Vecchio’s two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa Trinità and the Ponte alle Grazie.

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