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from February 11 to March 12 - 11:00 am America Enrico Bacci in Florence
The 25 paintings on display will offer the opportunity to view a route about extraordinary characters and images of American history and culture of our time
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from January 20 to March 22 - 10:00 Display, exhibition of young artists at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence
The review by Alberto Salvadori presents the work of the team born in Florence Studio + + (Fabio Ciaravella, Umberto Daina and Vincenzo Fiore)
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from 20 February to 25 April - 10:00 Gerhard Richter and the fade of Image in Contemporary Florence
The exhibition compares the work of Gerhard Richter, one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century with those of seven contemporary artists
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from 8 November to 9 May - 10:00 Florence 1829. Art, science and society at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence
As part of Science Florence, the exhibition shows in May 2010 up to about 70 objects, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture and scientific instruments from museums and private collections and Italian institutes
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from 25 February to 18 July - 17:30 De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. A look at Florence in the invisible
The gravitational center of the exhibition is composed of a core of masterpieces by Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical period
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from April 1 to June 30 - 9:30 am Crystals. The finest display of minerals in the world at the Museum Specola
The exhibition, part of the collection of Albert Giazotto: the sample of cuprite Onganja, Namibia, the vast dossier Elbaite Paprok, Afghanistan, the Elbe in Coronel Murta, Brazil; crystal gypsum Niccioleta, Tuscany
Welcome to Florence Old Bridge! Your Rooms in Florence
The Florence Old Bridge is a modern and comfortable rooms with well furnished and equipped with all comforts.
Each room has its private bathroom heating / air conditioning and color TV.
Name Florence Old Bridge derives from its proximity to Ponte Vecchio (less than 100 mt.) that the whole world knows and admires you.
Its position is strategic for exploring on foot main monuments and museums the city from which we are only a few minutes walk.
The treatment we offer is for room only but who wants to can do, with supplement, a hearty breakfast American or even Continental at the 'Hotel La Scaletta.
Hotel La Scaletta is our property and is located in front of the Florence Old Bridge on the opposite side of the road.
Special Offers
LAST MINUTE
From 1st to 31st of MARCH
Double Room € 18,50 per night per person
BOOK 3 NIGHTS we treat you with lunch (for 2)
in a tipical restaurant with Florentine cousine and Chianti wine
(*) valid from 1st of January to 31st
of March
Florence Old Bridge - Via Guicciardini, 22 nero - 50125 Florence, Italy Tel. +39 055 265 4262 - Fax +39 055 283 013 - Mobile +39 348 9309 568
PONTE VECCHIO (OLD BRIDGE)
The oldest and most famous bridge across the Arno, the Ponte Vecchio we know today was built in 1345 by Taddeo Gaddi to replace an earlier version. The characteristic overhanging shops have lined the bridge since at least the 12th century. In the 16th century, it was home to butchers until Cosimo I moved into the Palazzo Pitti across the river. He couldn't stand the stench as he crossed the bridge from on high in the Corridorio Vasariano every day, so he evicted the meat cutters and moved in the classier gold- and silversmiths, tradesmen who occupy the bridge to this day.
A bust of the most famous Florentine goldsmith, the swashbuckling autobiographer and Perseus sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, stands off to the side of the bridge's center, in a small piazza overlooking the Arno. From this vantage point Mark Twain, spoiled by the mighty Mississippi, once wryly commented, "It is popular to admire the Arno. It is a great historical creek, with four feet in the channel and some scows floating about. It would be a very plausible river if they would pump some water into it. They call it a river, and they honestly think it is a river . . . They even help out the delusion by building bridges over it. I do not see why they are too good to wade."
The Ponte Vecchio's fame saved it in 1944 from the Nazis, who had orders to blow up all the bridges before retreating out of Florence as Allied forces advanced. They couldn't bring themselves to reduce this span to rubble -- so they blew up the ancient buildings on either end instead to block it off. The Arno flood of 1966 wasn't so discriminating, however, and severely damaged the shops. Apparently, a private night watchman saw the waters rising alarmingly and called many of the goldsmiths at home, who rushed to remove their valuable stock before it was washed away.
PALAZZO PITTI Pitti palace 100 meters from "Florence Old Bridge"
Palazzo Pitti is found in Florence Piazza Pitti to on the slopes of the hill on which the Garden of Boboli is found.
l its inside is accommodates to you from various museums of various nature.
The main, rich pinacoteca of 500 paintings, is famous officially as Gallery Tippet and the most important burlaps are found to you, between which they detach the big number of works of Raffaello Sanzio, Pieter Paul Rubens and Andrea of the Taylor, but do not lack also wonderful Agnolo Bronzino, Caravaggio, Gentileschi Artemisa, Tintoretto, Tiziano, etc
The Gallery of Modern Art accommodates Italian painters (generally from Tuscany) from the 1700's to the 1900's, while the Museum of Silver possesses a wonderful collection of valuables made to make or acquires to you from the Doctors in the course of the centuries.
There is moreover the greater fashionable Italian museum dedicated, the Gallery of the Custom, and also the Monumental Apartments, wonderful example of furnishings and atmosphere rich decoration of the baroque period and rococò.
Florence Old Bridge
Via Guicciardini, 22 nero - 50125 Florence, Italy - VAT Number 05467090485
Tel. +39 055 265 4262 - Fax +39 055 283 013 - Mobile +39 348 9309 568 - Skype E-mail: info@florenceoldbridge.com
Bed & Breakfast Florence
Recently restored, the Florence Old Bridge is on the second floor (with lift) in one of the most central street of
the town. Double rooms, one single and one suite are at our guest's disposal, all of them furnished in old style with
unique taste which personalize each room. Our room have private bathroom with shower (the suite room also has bathtub
and a pittoresque marble fireplace) and air conditioning in summer (heat in winter). All the rooms face internal
courts or tiny streets without traffic and are very quite and peacefull even though you are in the very heart of the
city full of visitors. It is possible to have breakfast served at the table in the Tea room at the Antica pasticceria
Maioli, in front of our inn, at a special price of Euro 6 per person.
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