Ponte San Niccolò, Florence - Arno River - Heron

Crossing the Ponte San Niccolò over the Arno River in Florence.

The night before when we first arrived in Florence, we slightly went onto the bridge for the fireworks display, but the bridge was packed full of people and couldn't really see the river (it was dark).

The next evening at sunset, it was a bit earlier so could see the river, and the sunset.

Saw this heron on one side of the bridge.

Ponte San Niccolo

The bridge of San Niccolò is the bridge over the Arno furthest from the center of Florence , the third highest upstream of the Municipality of Florence, after those from Verrazzano and Varlungo.

It was built between 1836 and 1837 near the homonymous fishing farm San Niccolò that supplied water to the mills located within the walls.

Originally it was a suspension bridge, held up by metal ropes stretched between the bank and the bank of the Arno. The original name was Ponte San Ferdinando in honor of Grand Duke Ferdinando III of Tuscany . The construction work was entrusted to a French company of the brothers Marc and Jules Séguin, famous engineers skilled in the design of metal bridges, who had also been in charge of the construction of the San Leopoldo bridge , now called Ponte alla Vittoria. A few years later it was overwhelmed by the 1844 flood, it was rebuilt in 1853 and still modified in 1890, always maintaining a metal structure, for this reason it was popularly called the Iron Bridge.

It changed its name after the end of the Grand Duchy and was named after San Niccolò in honor of the adjacent district on the southern bank of the Arno.

Like all other Florentine bridges except Ponte Vecchio , it was mined and destroyed by the retreating Germans in 1944 and rebuilt in the following years with the current reinforced concrete structure, with a single arch (unlike all previous structures that they had been developed with three arches, with the exception of the first which was suspended).

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Taken in: Italia / Toscana / Firenze / Gavinana (show map)

Taken on: June 25, 2018

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