St Trinity Bridge

"The first bridge built at this location dates back to 1252 and was made of wood. After being destroyed and rebuilt several times due to floods, the decision was made to build a more permanent structure. The bridge as it appears today is based on the version built by Bartolomeo Ammannati from 1567 to around 1570, under the patronage of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici. The bridge faced a major tragedy during World War II. As the German forces retreated from Florence in 1944, they destroyed all the bridges in the city except the famous Ponte Vecchio (supposedly they did not have it in them to destroy such a famous landmark, so instead razed the buildings on either side of the bridge to slow the advancing allied forces). Unfortunately, the Ponte Santa Trìnita was blown up. However, after the war, it was reconstructed using some of the original stones that were salvaged from the riverbed, as well as stones specially quarried from the Boboli gardens where the original stone from the bridge was sourced. This painstaking restoration was completed in 1958 under the direction of architect Riccardo Gizdulich, and engineer Emilio Brizzi."

"Beautiful to see at sunset "