This island formed the heart of the original city and it's connected to the mainland by the Ponte di Porta Napoli and the Ponte Girevole.

" Ponte vecchio " ( The old bridge )

It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trìnita bridge ( built by Bartolomeo Ammanati, but inspired by Michelangelo ).

He was then employed in 1569 to build the beautiful bridge over the Arno, known as Ponte Santa Trinita and one of his most celebrated works.

The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina ( later named Borgo Sant ' Angelo ), a road leading from Castel Sant ' Angelo to Saint Peter.

Ponte Sisto, the first bridge built at Rome since Antiquity

Aerial view of Venice including the Ponte della Libertà bridge to the mainland

In 2011 the city opened Ponte della Costituzione, the fourth bridge across the Grand Canal, connecting the Piazzale Roma bus terminal area with the Stazione Ferroviaria ( train station ), the others being the original Ponte di Rialto, the Ponte dell ' Accademia, and the Ponte degli Scalzi.

Cars can reach the car / bus terminal via the Ponte della Libertà bridge that comes in from the northwest from Mestre.

* Construction of the Ponte della Maddalena bridge in the Province of Lucca, Italy begins in 1080.

" Vecchio " is the Italian word for " old " ( as used in Ponte Vecchio, meaning " old bridge ").

Maxentius chose to make his stand in front of the Milvian Bridge, a stone bridge that carries the Via Flaminia road across the Tiber River into Rome ( the bridge stands today at the same site, somewhat remodelled, named in Italian Ponte Milvio or sometimes Ponte Molle, soft bridge ).

* The Ponte San Lorenzo, a Roman bridge largely underground, along with the ancient Ponte Molino, Ponte Altinate, Ponte Corvo and Ponte S. Matteo

The segmental arch was first built by the Romans who realized that an arch in a bridge did not have to be a semicircle, such as in Alconétar Bridge or Ponte San Lorenzo.

File: Firenze. Arno. jpg | Banks of the Arno, seen from the Ponte Vecchio ( Old Bridge ), Florence

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

As a reward for his services at Austerlitz ( 2 December 1805 ) he became the 1st Sovereign Prince of Ponte Corvo ( 5 June 1806 ), but during the campaign against Prussia, in the same year, was severely reproached by Napoleon for not participating with his army corps in the battles of Jena and Auerstädt, though close at hand.

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830 ), commonly known as Simón Bolívar (), was a Venezuelan military and political leader.

Constantly struggling with the Guelph Perugia, it was during one of those battles, the battle at Ponte San Giovanni, that Francesco di Bernardone, ( Saint Francis of Assisi ), was taken prisoner, setting in motion the events that eventually led him to live as a beggar, renounce the world and establish the Order of Friars Minor.

* Italy: Ponte Coperto ( picture ), Rialto Bridge and the Bridge of Sighs in Venice

It was designed by Antoni Contino ( whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge ), and built in 1602.

Adjacent to Saint-Omer ( or St. Omer ) is the community of Haut-Pont ( Haute Ponte ), the historic Belgian and much earlier, the various French-Netherlands boundary in a number of centuries.

* Gabry Ponte ( real name Gabriele Ponte ), born 20 April 1973 in Turin, Piedmont – producer

Along with Zorrilla's work ( still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world ), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 ( with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience ) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.

In the first decades of the 19th century, the roads that connect Lugano with Bellinzona ( 1808 – 12 ), Ponte Tresa ( 1808 – 20 ) and Chiasso ( 1810 – 16 ) were built.

* Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte ( 1763 – 1844 ), Prince of Ponte Corvo, King of Sweden and Norway under the name Charles XIV John ( 1818 – 1844 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804

* Ponte di Cecco ( Cecco Bridge ), over the Castellano, recently identified of being of Roman Republican origin

In the 19th century a causeway to the mainland brought the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station to Venice, and the Ponte della Libertà road causeway and parking facilities were built during the twentieth century.

Many older bridges were built using an arch, for example the Ponte Coperto and the Ponte Vecchio.

* Ponte delle Torri, a striking 13th-century aqueduct, possibly on Roman foundations: whether it was first built by the Romans is a point on which scholarly opinion is divided.

It is annexed to the Ponte Tufillo, a medieval bridge built in 1097 over the River Tronto.

The Aragonese Castle ( Castello Aragonese, Ischia Ponte ) was built on a rock near the island in 474 BC, by Hiero I of Syracuse.

The Prisons near the Doge's Palace in Venice and the Rialto Bridge in Venice were built by Antonio da Ponte.

The town is famous for the largest Roman bridge ( Ponte di Augusto ) ever built, by which the Via Flaminia crossed the Nera: about half of the bridge still stands ; it is some 30 meters high.

The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Ponte ( which is now the Cathedral located in Fernando Prestes square, downtown ) was built by him, along with the São Bento de Parnaíba monastery ( now São Bento monastery ) years later.

Today known as the Ponte Tiberio, it was built in 14 AD under Roman emperor Tiberius as part of a major upgrading of the whole Via Aemilia started under his predecessor Augustus

At monumental level, they emphasize the prehistoric rest like mámoas of Estaca de Bares and the possibly prehistoric ( built in Middle Age according to other sources ) port ; in addition to Roman necropolis in A Ponte do Porto.

Following this development, several temporary kiosks ( prefabricated in Spain ) were controversially built on the bridge, to create " a contemporary version of an inhabited bridge, such as the Ponte Vecchio in Florence ".

* Cathedral of Santa Maria del Ponte (" St. Mary of the Bridge "), so called because it is built on bridgework along a precipice: is the work of Michitelli ( 1619 ) and has some paintings by Pozzulaniello ( Giacinto Diana ).

The stadium was built with the help of hundreds of Ponte Preta supporters.

Emperor Hadrian built near the Tiber his huge Mausoleum, which he connected to the left bank of the river with another Bridge, the Pons Ælius ( today's Ponte Sant ' Angelo ).