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.

Ever since it was rebuilt in 1345, Italy’s Ponte Vecchio bridge has endured many hardships. Over the course of hundreds of years, it survived Adolph Hitler’s retreating Nazi army during World ...

The bridge also famously survived WWII, as it was the only one in Florence not destroyed by the Germans. Major flooding of the Arno once again threatened the Ponte Vecchio in 1966, though the ...

7 Field Coy — 8th Indian Div. —Up through Italy, Ponte Vecchio, our contribution to the Architectural History of Florence, 1944 by Julie Howarth You are browsing in: ...

The Ponte Vecchio was spared as a result of a telegram order sent by German Supreme Command not to blow up the bridge. By the time I arrived on the scene about 10 days later, Florence was a fairly ...