These are from two different nights in Florence but are both taken on the Arno River.
This one was taken from the Ponte Vecchio. Ponte means bridge and Vecchio just means old. But the Bridge has been there for hundreds of years and was the place the gold guilds sold all of their work. Its still the place of all the jewelers in Florence.
See that little boat...we had 14 students, one instructor and two men to row/push the boat up the Arno. There was only about 6 inches between the top edge of the boat and the the top of the water. And the water was about as clean as the Mississippi. The Florentines used to enjoy peeing into the river knowing that their rival city of Pisa would get the water after them.
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