Pescaia di San Niccolò - The Arno River in Florence from the Lungarno della Zecca Vecchia

Heading back to the hotel after leaving the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The quickest way without getting lost was by following the Arno River!

Near the end of the walk back on the Lungarno della Zecca Vecchia.

Pescaia di San Niccolò - looks like a weir or a dam on the river. Probably to prevent another flood like in 1966!

Since ancient times and until the end of the 14th century, the Arno represented for Florence one of the major resources to produce energy for the hydraulic factories located along its course. The river was also used as a river and as a natural fish supply. The Art of Wool possessed on the banks of the river many facilities necessary for the various cycles of wool and fabric processing, such as fulling mills. The so-called "peaches" or "steccaie" made of wood or vegetable material contributed to the canalisation work. Two were the main Florentine fisheries: the fishing of San Niccolò, located in the area of the homonymous port, and that of Santa Rosa in the area of the Cascine Park. The fishery of San Niccolò supplied water to the mills located within the walls, destined in part to the needs of the population.

View towards the 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 / Ricorboli (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2018

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