Ponte di Mezzo

Ponte di Mezzo dal Lungarno (L. Corevi , Comune di Pisa)
Ponte di Mezzo dal Lungarno (L. Corevi , Comune di Pisa)
Some documents dated between 1111 and 1155 mention a bridge between the churches of San Sebastiano in Kinzica (behind the Logge dei Banchi) and San Michele in Borgo, featuring shops, sales counters over the vault and an oratory dedicated to the Virgin. Its name changed from pons de Arno to pons vetus, then ponte vecchio and finally Mezzo (it was the name of the district that could be accessed by crossing the river from south to north). The disastrous collapse of 1637 led to its complete reconstruction completed in 1660 by Francesco Nave, during the government of Cosimo III de’ Medici.

There are three bridges over the Arno to go from one part of the city to the other: the one in the middle is made of stone, and is a little more than half the length of the Pon Royal; it has three arches, with curves of a beautiful white marble, like the stones above the side walls (Montesquieu, 1824).

Destroyed during the Second World War, it was rebuilt in 1959 with a single concrete arch, covered with Verona white marble by architects Renzo Bellucci, Giovanni Salghetti-Drioli and Raffaello Trinci.
BAZEEL HOSTEL
70m
Piazza Garibaldi, 12 - p.2
Recapito 340 2881113
BORGO SUITE
110m
Vernagalli, 29
Recapito 050 934072
LE DONZELLE DI VETTOVAGLIE
110m
Vicolo delle Donzelle, 3
Recapito 329 8026760
B&B SANTA BONA
170m
Lungarno Mediceo, 47 - Pisa
Recapito 349 6343068
MACCHERONI DANIELE
110m
Lungarno Mediceo, 53
Recapito 050 541080
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