Ponte Santa Trinita

Ponte Santa Trinita or as I like to call it «one hellova romantic bridge».
This bridge makes for such a beautiful sight at night while perfectly reflecting in the water. A photographer’s dream to capture such illusive symmetry!
While staying in Florence, we had to cross the bridge to get to our airbnb. This made for a long walk back but it wasn’t until the bridge’s end that I would start complaining because that is when I wouldn’t have anything as pretty to distract me.
Come out here while enjoying a gelato cone and take some memorable pictures or just cozy up with your honey and see the pretty city stacked alongside.

The Ponte Santa Trìnita (English translation: Holy Trinity Bridge) is a beautiful Renaissance-​style bridge on the Arno River in Firenze, Italy.
The construction of the bridge was completed in 1569, making the Ponte Santa Trinita the oldest elliptical arch bridge in the world. The bridge was destroyed by German soldiers in 1944, but rebuilt in 1958 with the original stones that were recovered from the Arno River. Fragments of the bridge were not found so stones from the Boboli Gardens were used to rebuild the Ponte Santa Trinita
This bridge is often casted in the shadows of the Ponte Vecchio, located upstream, but the Ponte Santa Trinita is just as magnificent!

An incredible must-​read history of the most resilient bridge in Florence. This bridge was destroyed in World War II and only the pillars were left standing. After the war the bridge was reconstructed in 1958 using the original design, with the fallen pieces retrieved from the Arno as well as stone from its original quarry — the Boboli Gardens. Even the statues are the original ones! The bridge’s pieces continued to be found in the Arno river thru the years, such as one of the statue’s head found in 1961 downstream.
But Germans were not the only ones to show some «love» to this bridge. The very first Santa Trinita bridge built in 1252, made with wood, fell 7 years later due to excessive weight from a crowd; a new stone version of it was swept away in a flood in 1333; then in 1557 the Arno gave this bridge the ultimate GTFO and destroyed it completely once again. Today’s version of the bridge was constructed by the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammanati in 1569, then bombed by Germany in 1944 during WW2.
Named after the nearby Santa Trinita Church, this bridge was a major link in the medieval street plan of old Florence.
This elegant bridge is one of my favorite spots to go to. It has so much history but is often overshadowed by the Ponte Vecchio. Us locals like to sit on the bridge’s pillars, drink a beer, read a book or eat a gelato as we admire the beauty of the city, tucked away from all the busy craziness the city can bring.
This is one tough bridge!

This is one of our favorite bridges to sit and admire the Ponte Vecchio. Especially good views at night. Go at sunset or just after for dramatic views down river or turn around and get pictures of the Ponte Vecchio with the sun reflecting off it. This is also one of the optimum spots to watch fireworks set off from Piazzella Michelangelo with the Ponte Vecchio and reflections off the Arno.