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 ... by the second duke of Florence, Cosimo I de’ Medici of the infamous Medici family, which controlled ...