Santa Trinita Bridge

Ponte Santa Trinita was built in 1252 and named after the nearby church. Like all Florence’s historic bridges, it was rebuilt several times after Arno floods. Following the terrible flood of 1557, Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned Bartolomeo Ammannati to rebuild it, perhaps drawing on an idea by Michelangelo. Built in pietra forte and decorated with commemorative inscriptions, it was considered the most elegant bridge, worthy of the grand-ducal processions crossing it. The statues at its ends are by Giovanni Caccini, Autumn and Summer; Taddeo Landini, Winter; and Pietro Francavilla, Spring. Destroyed by German forces during the Second World War, it was rebuilt in 1958 exactly “as it was and where it was”.