Too good to be true: dawn in Florence | Jack Marshall’s column
Comfortably in the top-10 most famous bridges in the world, the Ponte Vecchio spans the Arno at its narrowest point, with the current incarnation dating back to 1345. It’s hosted merchants’ shops since the day it opened and it’s so beautiful that rumour has it that Hitler refused to sack it during a German retreat.
To put it mildly, it’s a very famous bridge. Waxing throngs of phone-toting travellers can invariably be found swamping its flagstones, an interminable supply of beaming teenagers smiling and tilting their heads this way and that foras the sunlight bounces off the surging water below. Trillions of steps have been taken across it.
On a recent holiday to the city, myself, my mother, and my brother all decided we wanted to cross the Ponte Vecchio at dawn, to watch the sunrise over the ancient golden city as this silent and empty stone monument from a different era starts its slow bake in the Tuscan heat. It was a chance we couldn’t pass up.
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