{"id":225,"date":"2025-05-15T19:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:18:40","slug":"3-things-to-take-pictures-of-while-cruising-the-arno-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/3-things-to-take-pictures-of-while-cruising-the-arno-river\/","title":{"rendered":"3 things to take pictures of while cruising the Arno river"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summer is the season of Florence boat tour<\/strong>: we <strong>organize cruises down the River Arno at sunset<\/strong>, when the sun colors up the city in gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 1-hour cruise you see Florence from a completely different point of view and spot 3 things we suggest you take pictures of.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The church with its bottom down in the Arno river<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>San Jacopo Saoprarno<\/strong> <strong>Church<\/strong> dates bak to 10-11th centuries and was transformed into a cathilic-orthodox church in 2006.&nbsp; Since the Middle Ages Florentine people nicknamed it &#8220;Chiesa col culo in Arno&#8221;, literally the Church with its bottom down in the Arno; the names comes from the peculiar structure of the apse&#8217;s basement that stand directly on the bank river, so that when the Arno is high it looks like the apse built in the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-1-1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Aries of Ponte Santa Trinita<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you sail <strong>underneath Ponte Santa Trinita<\/strong>, you <strong>notice two big heads of <\/strong>aries standing at the side of the bridge: one watches the mounts, the other watches the valley.&nbsp; They were built by Ammannati as guardians of the city; as a matter of fact the aries watching the mounts, it&#8217;s watching the Casentino where previous floods started, while the other is watching beyond the valley to the seaside, where the eternal enemy stads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-2jpg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-2jpg-1.jpg 669w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-2jpg-1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ponte Vecchio is more beautiful than you ever thought<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It may look bovious, but event 100% Florentine people are overwhelmed by the beauty of Ponte Vecchio seen from the Arno river at sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-3-1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-3-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-cose-da-3-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is the season of Florence boat tour: we organize cruises down the River Arno at sunset, when the sun colors up the city in gold. 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