
From the Vault: The Skybridge, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Vasari Coradour in Florence
Vasari Coradour was built in 1565 to allow members of the powerful Medici family to move freely between their residents and the governmental center there in Florence. The bridge bears a certain family's coat of arms it might have been the family of the doge or someone else but possibly that coat of arms looks like a skull I don't know. It literally just cuts through the city built over what was some riverside butcher shops because you know you want to dump all of that the leftovers it directly into the riverbut that smelled too bad so with a little Medici finagling they got some jewelers in there as well.
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