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 ...

Florence's "Old Bridge" - in Italian "Ponte Vecchio" - is a medieval stone closed ... Cathedral - and the Piazza della Signoria on one side and the Palazzo Pitti and Santo Spirito church on ...