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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.
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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
