Accommodation near Ponte Vecchio

Accommodation near Ponte Vecchio Florence

Clickbed offers Accommodation near Ponte Vecchio where you will be able to admire the oldest bridge in Europe and one of the emblematic places of the magical city of Florence.

The nowadays bridge was built by Taddeo Gaddi in 1345, but there are registers stating that another bridges stood before at the same place since the 1st century in the Roman times. Reserve your Accommodation in Ponte Vecchio in order to visit this old bridge that at first hosted shops and merchants like fishmongers and butchers until 1593, when they were replaced with goldsmiths to erradicate the smell.

There exist several legends related to the Ponte Vecchio. It is said that during World War II, the Ponte Vecchio was the only bridge in Florence not destroyed by Germans, due to an express order by Hitler. It is said that the economic concept of bankruptcy originated here: when a merchant could not pay his debts, the table on which he sold his wares (the "banco") was physically broken ("rotto") by soldiers, and this practice was called "bancorotto". Get your Accommodation near Ponte Vecchio and discover all the legends and history kept through the centuries in its foundations.

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