Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone arched bridge on the Yano River in Florence, Italy. Shops are built along the way, which was once common. Butchers originally occupied the store. The current tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The bridge spans the narrowest point of the Arno River, believed to have been built in the Roman era, when the Cassia intersection crossed the river. The Roman pier is stone and wood is superstructure. The bridge first appeared in the literature of 996. The bridge was rebuilt as a stone after it was destroyed by floods in 1117, but was again swept away in 1333, except for two central piers, which Giovanni Villani mentioned in his New Coronica. It was rebuilt in 1345. George Vasari recorded his traditional views of the time, crediting the design to Tadio Gadi, one of the art names remembered 200 years later, except for Giotto. Modern historians believe that Neri Di Fioravanti may have been the builder. The weathered devotion stone was placed in a little porch in the middle of the bridge, and the Neri Tower was built in the southeast corner of the bridge to defend it.