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Ponte Rubaconte, today Ponte alle Grazie. Alinari brothers
210 x 270 mm, collodion print. Italy. Architecture.
Ponte alle Grazie is a bridge, reconstructed after 1945, over the Arno River in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
The original bridge was called Ponte di Rubaconte after the name of the podestà Rubaconte da Mandello who had commissioned construction in 1227, making it older than the Ponte Vecchio. It was rebuilt in 1345 with nine arches, making it the longest in Florence. Giorgio Vasari attributed the design to an architect by the name of Lapo Tedesco, the architect of the Bargello. In 1346, two of the arches in the Oltrarno neighborhood were filled up to extend the bank, leaving the seven arch structure seen in a 17th-century print on this page. This landfill widened the street of Piazza dei Mozzi, which leads to the Palazzo Mozzi. In August 1944, the bridge was destroyed by the retreating Germans as they withdrew before the advancing Allied forces in World War II.
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Ponte Rubaconte, heute Ponte alle Grazie. Gebrüder Alinari
210 x 270 mm, Kollodiumdruck.
Italien.
Architektur.
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