As crowds form a logjam along the Ponte Vecchio — Florence’s famous, shop-fringed medieval bridge — those in ... he will eventually hang artworks inside at a later date.

Florence's "Old Bridge" - in Italian "Ponte Vecchio" - is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, connecting Via Por Santa Maria to Via de' Guicciardini over the Arno river.

Much like London's Tower Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio was built to replace an earlier bridge. Once dominated by butchers, fishmongers and bakers, the original bridge was washed away during a flood in ...