FLORENCE, TUSCANY, ITALY
PONTE VECCHIO
FIRENZE
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The Old Bridge (Ponte Vecchio) is the oldest bridge of Florence, its origin laughed to the roman age, but many times it was damaged from floods of the Arno River and it was reconstructed several times, the bridge crosses the river in the point of minor amplitude and is today one of the symbols of the city of Florence. In medieval age the bridge was in wood, then at the end of 12th century it was constructed in stone to five arched, that was completely destroyed from the tremendous flood of 1333. After the alluvium in 1345 a new bridge was constructed, on plan of Taddeo Gaddi or probably Neri Fioravanti, whose innovative structure for the age, was to three pass to arc lowered, then on the advanced part it was a double row of shops. In 1565 the architect Giorgio Vasari realized, over the shops on the eastern side, the Vasarian Corridor, long approximately a kilometer, in order to put in communication Old Palace with the private dwelling of the Medici, Palazzo Pitti. In the 1600's were added the back-shop from brackets (or “sporti”) giving to the bridge the actual appearance. The shops, were occupied initially from fishmongers, butchers and tanners, then, in 1593, for order of Ferdinando I, that didn't like the unpleasant smells under the windows of the Vasarian Corridor where every day had to pass, the shops were occupied solos from gold and jeweller's shops. Still today on the bridge is the same typology of shops. The three panoramic windows in the center of the Vasarian Corridor on the west side of the bridge were opened in 1939 in occasion of the visit of Hitler in Florence, the Old Bridge was the only bridge of Florence that was not destroyed from the Germans troops in 1944 in the course of the Second World war. |
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