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Re: Ponte Vecchio - Elevated Road Bridge Over Rail
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lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 05:25:03 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes:

<nitpick> Ponte Vecchio is in Florence, not Venice.... the one in Venice
which
has shops all over it is the Rialto - see pic:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kwilson_tccs/rialto1.jpg

My goof... the book I was relying on says Florence, too.

Looking at some pictures, it sure seems that Il Ponte Vecchio rests on pilings.
I found http://www.fol.it/streets/streetsindex.html to have some nice drawings.

Ours here in Kew Gardens hasn't got any arches. My book says there are several
more in the U.S. but the author does not know exactly where.

* Barry Lewis: Kew Gardens, Urban Village in the Big City



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  Re: Ponte Vecchio - Elevated Road Bridge Over Rail
 
(...) It does. If you're interested, I have several shots from my vacation to Florence (which, my god, was almost a year ago). I don't have them scanned in currently, though if you're patient I can have them by just after Christmas (I don't own a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Ponte Vecchio - Elevated Road Bridge Over Rail
 
(...) <nitpick> Ponte Vecchio is in Florence, not Venice.... the one in Venice which has shops all over it is the Rialto - see pic: (URL) Great idea though Eric. Post pictures when you're done! Kevin (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)

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