Piazza De’Frescobaldi

«I got 99 problems and the bridge is one.»
Piazza Frescobaldi was established in the 1200’s by the Fresco di Baldo, a swanky family of high lineage who were rich merchants and had a $trong political influen€e, as well as owning a big part of what is now Borgo Santo Spirito and Borgo San Jacopo.
This Piazza lays in the heart of their then properties, reason why in this very corner you find the Frescobaldi Palace of San Jacopo and the Casa Frescobaldi (some of their many houses of course, they rolled deep).
Since this family was pretty baller they decided to build a bridge from *their* piazza to the other side of the city right in front of their freakin house. Yes, this is the family that built the Santa Trinita bridge in 1252, and named it after the Church nearby! It’s the same bridge as today, tho not technically… the one they first built was a wooden one, which fell when a bunch of people were on it; then they rebuilt it in stone, which the Arno river later GTFO’d; and so on for hundreds of years (you can read its tragic history in my review on the bridge’s Unilocal page).
The lucky fountain in the corner survived WWII, and is the original one that was put there in 1638. Luckily, this one is gypsy free — drink away!