Florence's oldest bridge, a medieval stone bridge over the Arno lined with jewellers' and goldsmiths' shops built out over the water. Above them runs the Vasari Corridor, a private passageway built so the Medici could walk from the Palazzo Vecchio to the Pitti Palace; it can now be visited on booked tours.
It was the only Florence bridge the Germans did not destroy in 1944. For the best view of it, walk to the neighbouring Ponte Santa Trinita, especially at sunset.
One of the world's great art museums, in a Renaissance building beside the Arno, with masterpieces such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera,…
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An 18th-century villa turned four-star-superior hotel, set in its own park and gardens in Bagno a Ripoli, about 4 km from the centre of Florence.
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