The Ponte Vecchio, in Florence Italy. The name means "Old Bridge". Highly appropriate, since its first design, in stone and wood, was built during the Roman Empire. Its current appearance dates back to 1345.
In the opera "Gianni Schicchi", by Giacomo Puccini is a beautiful aria, "O mio babbino caro". In English, "O my dear father". Lauretta, finding her budding romance with the young man Rinuccio threatened by her father, sings to him:
(translated into English)
Yes, yes, I want to go there!
And if my love were in vain,
I would go to the Ponte Vecchio
And throw myself in the Arno!
