Ponte Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno, in Florence, Italy. The only bridge in Florence spared from destruction during World War II, it is noted for the shops built along it; building shops on such bridges was once a common practice.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Imehling, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in Florence, Italy
- Also known as: “Vecchio Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Uffizi Gallery and Vasari Corridor.
Uffizi Gallery
Museum
Photo: Arek N., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best-known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. Uffizi Gallery is situated 190 metres east of Ponte Vecchio.
Vasari Corridor
Museum
Photo: Luca Aless, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Vasari Corridor is a 16th-century elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. It was designed by, and named for, architect Giorgio Vasari to allow Duke Cosimo I de' Medici to move undisturbed between both palaces.
Piazza della Signoria
Square
Photo: Giuseppe Zocchi, Public domain.
Piazza della Signoria is a W-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Central Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria is situated 280 metres northeast of Ponte Vecchio.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Statuto and Isolotto.
Ponte Vecchio
- Categories: deck arch bridge, stone bridge, built-on bridge, tourist attraction, arched bridge, footbridge, and transportation
- Location: Florence, Florence, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vlaams—“Ponte Vecchio” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Arabic: “أين يقع جسر البونتي فيشو؟”
- Arabic: “جسر بونتي فيكيو”
- Arabic: “جسر فتشيو”
- Armenian: “Պոնտե Վեկյո”
- Basque: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Belarusian: “Понтэ Век’ё”
- Bosnian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Breton: “Ponte Vecchio (Firenze)”
- Breton: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Bulgarian: “Понте Векио”
- Catalan: “Pont de Vecchio”
- Catalan: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Chinese: “老桥”
- Chinese: “老橋”
- Czech: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Danish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Dutch: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Esperanto: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Estonian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Finnish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- French: “Pont Vieux”
- French: “ponte Vecchio”
- French: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Georgian: “პონტე ვეკიო”
- Georgian: “პონტე-ვეკიო”
- German: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Greek: “Πόντε Βέκιο”
- Hebrew: “פונטה וקיו”
- Hungarian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Indonesian: “Jembatan vecchio”
- Indonesian: “Jembatan Vecchio”
- Italian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Japanese: “ヴェッキオ橋”
- Japanese: “ポンテ・ヴェッキオ”
- Kazakh: “Понте Веккьо”
- Korean: “베키오 다리”
- Lithuanian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Lithuanian: “Pontė Večio”
- Lithuanian: “Pontė Vekijo”
- Luxembourgish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Macedonian: “Понте Векио”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Norwegian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Persian: “پونته وکیو”
- Polish: “Most Złotników”
- Polish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Portuguese: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Portuguese: “Velha Ponte de Florença”
- Romanian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Russian: “Мост Веккьо”
- Russian: “Понте Веккио”
- Russian: “Понте Веккьо”
- Russian: “Понте-Веккьо”
- Scots: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Serbian: “Ponte Vekio”
- Serbian: “Понте Векио”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Slovak: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Slovenian: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Spanish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Spanish: “Puente Vecchio”
- Spanish: “Puente Viejo”
- Swedish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Tatar: “Понте Веккьо күпере”
- Turkish: “Ponte Vecchio Köprüsü”
- Turkish: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Ukrainian: “Понте Веккйо”
- Ukrainian: “Понте Веккьо”
- Urdu: “پونٹ ونیشیوبرج”
- Urdu: “ویکیو پل”
- Uzbek: “Ponte Vekkio”
- Vietnamese: “Ponte Vecchio”
- Vlaams: “Ponte Vecchio”
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