When the new Ponte Vecchio was completed, it too was home to local food stores until Grand Duke Ferdinand I of the Medici family decided to designate this unadorned bridge the epicenter of the ...

Ponte Vecchio (Italian for "Old Bridge") doesn't look like much from the outside ... But as in Italy, the outside of the building says nothing about the food and service inside. Once you walk into ...

food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. The Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful centuries-old bridge spanning the Arno River in the Italian city of Florence, is best viewed on foot ...

Chef and Italophile Daisuke Yamane has a thing for a particular bridge that spans the Arno River in Florence: the Ponte Vecchio ... of Italy — especially its food — in Japan.

In the seven centuries since the Ponte Vecchio was first built in Florence, Italy, the bridge has watched the city changing around it, surviving floods, fires and the Nazi invasion in World War II.

Florence's "Old Bridge" - in Italian "Ponte Vecchio" - is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, connecting Via Por Santa Maria to Via de' Guicciardini over the Arno river.

Police in Florence fined a 34-year-old man from California for driving through pedestrian-only Ponte Vecchio bridge without proper license. Photo from Ahmed Mansour via Unsplash Italy’s Ponte ...