Dante's Plaque: Ponte Vecchio

. . . IN SUL PASSO D'ARNO.

DANTE, INF., XIII, 146.

…ON THE PASS OF ARNO

With this verse, Dante reminds us the Ponte Vecchio, the most famous bridge crossing over the Arno River. It is the only one in Florence that has remained intact (all the others have been destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War); it was erected in the fourteenth century on the site of an older Roman bridge. The Plaque is placed in the loggia under the Corridoio Vasariano, halfway along the bridge.

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