Italy Part 3: Florence - The River

After Cinque Terre, we took the train to Florence (or, Firenze, as the Italians say). We stayed there for five nights and saw many beautiful sites!

The Arno river runs east-to-west through Florence. We stayed in a 5th floor apartment right at the north end of the Ponte Vecchio, a bridge which was built in 1345.

Here's the view from one of our windows:

That long white "building" in the center is the Ponte Vecchio.
This was taken facing southwest-ish.

And here's the view of the other side of the river (Oltrarno),
looking to the southeast-ish.

The rest of these were taken from street level:

Looking to the east in the late afternoon.


A church across the river.



Bridges at dusk, taken from two bridges east.

Ponte Vecchio at night (taken from the next bridge west).