Ponte Vecchio

Dating from 1345, Ponte Vecchio was the main Florentine extension to survive annihilation on account of withdrawing German powers in 1944. Over the gem dealers' shops on the eastern side, the Corridoio Vasariano is a sixteenth century way between the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti that circles, instead of through, the medieval Torre dei Mannelli at the scaffold's southern end. The main documentation of a stone extension here, at the tightest intersection point along the whole length of the Arno, dates from 972.Floods out of 1177 and 1333 devastated the scaffold, and in 1966 it verged on being crushed once more.

A considerable lot of the gem dealers with shops on the extension were persuaded the floodwaters would clear away their occupations; luckily the scaffold held.They're still here. Without a doubt, the scaffold has twinkled with the sparkling products of gem specialists, their exchange regularly go down from age to age, as far back as the sixteenth century, when Ferdinando I de' Medici requested them here to supplant the frequently rank nearness of the town butchers, who used to hurl undesirable remains into the stream.