As I wrote many times, I live in a small town close to Florence (Italy) and sometimes we go there by train (just 40 minutes by train) to run errands or just for fun. This morning my hubby had to go there to give some documents to the office for the cultural properties, located at the end of the Boboli's garden, in the beautiful Pitti Palace.
I always like to take a lot of pictures when we are there, because Florence is really a wonderful city when everyone can "breath" the art on every corner.
Today I want to share with you some pics I took of the Ponte Vecchio (the Old Brifge) that is very loved by every turist when they are in Florence.
Usually there are to many persons on this bridge, but this morning it was quiet enough to take some pics ^_^
There are a lot of jewelry little shops on this bridge and so everything looks so billiant.
The"Old bridge" is not simply "old", but really "ancient", because the first document where we can read about it it's dated 996, more then 1000 years ago!
It was destroyed around the 1100 and again in the 1300, but fortunately it was reconstructed soon.
In the center of the bridge, under a loggia, there is a small stone when we can read about an italian sentence that say in the 1333 the bridge dropped down cause a rain storm and after 10 years the bridge was reconstructed thanks the municipality.
On the other side of the loggia, there is a statue of Benvenuto Cellini.
I hope you liked this sort of virtual tour on the Old Bridge!
Stay tuned to see other corners of Florence. ^_^
See ya soon
Silvia
