Photo title: Florence's Ponte Vecchio
Image #: P-9199
Photographer's Description The Ponte Vecchio Bridge shops are now home to high-end jewellers. Once inhabited by butcher shops, Ferdinando I de' Medici ordered them out during his reign due to the smell that developed as a result of butchers throwing unwanted meat into the river below.
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