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 ...

In 1565, a simple, elegant hallway was built atop Ponte Vecchio (or the Old Bridge) in Florence ... to the world-famous Uffizi Galleries, an art museum boasting works such as Sandro Botticelli ...

Florence's "Old Bridge" - in Italian "Ponte Vecchio" - is a medieval stone closed ... today it is made up of jewellers, art dealers and souvenir shops. This change is said to have occurred in ...

Rainfall swells the Arno river under the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence on Friday ... the world-famous art museum, to close early, and the Duomo said it was also shutting.