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Craftsmen of the Oltrarno
Fascinating old workshops and attractive arts and crafts
There are a thousand ways of exploring the "other Florence" of the city centre, the working class neighbourhood of Oltrarno and its craft workshops.
Without a doubt the best way is to move around on foot, wandering through the maze of narrow streets and alleys in search of the expert craftspeople who are keeping alive traditional working methods and handing them down to future generations. With its historic workshops, its pool of manual skills and the original artistic craft items that are made there, the Oltrarno is the essence of artisan Florence. Everything is still patiently and meticulously carried out by hand. In the maze of workshops occupied by craftspeople and small businesses, imagination and creativity reign supreme, and a mix of manual ability, intuitive flair and good taste yield some truly unique results. The Oltrarno is an open-air museum and an extraordinary legacy of traditions.
The Chamber of Commerce and the Florence Tourist Office, in conjunction with the Province of Florence and Florence City Council, organize tourist itineraries led by professional tourist guides. These offer a close-up view of studios and workshops in one of Florence's most authentic neighbourhoods. Accompanied by a professional guide, tourists visit three of the workshops in any given itinerary, or alternatively strike out on their own, choosing from an extensive list of possibilities.
The tours last about three hours and take place on Monday and Thursday afternoons. The cost is € 10,00 per person. The assembly point is in Piazza Pitti at 3pm (or elsewhere, as established by the booking office).
The itineraries run throughout the year, with a break in the summer (from the last week in July through to the second week of September, inclusive) and during the Christmas and New Year holidays.cestello
The programme comprises just three studios per itinerary, chosen according to the availability of the craftspeople. This is so visitors can fully appreciate the skills and workmanship involved.
Welcome to Florence Old Bridge! Your Rooms in Florence
The Florence Old Bridge gets its name from one of the most beautiful and famous bridges in the world, the Ponte Vecchio, from which is close by (less than 100 mt).
Also nearby is the Palazzo Pitti, with the Boboli Gardens.
Within comfortable walking distance are the main monuments and museums of the historical center, like the Uffizi's Gallery [Galleria degli Uffizi], Palazzo Vecchio, the museum of the Academy (David by Michelangelo), the Basilica of Santa Croce, the Baptistery, and the Cathedral (Dome by Brunelleschi).
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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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