The Ponte Vecchio offers a romantic and suggestive point of view over the city and the Arno river. Today the location of many jewellery stores tucked away in the crevices of this amazing bridge that survived many attacks of the past and houses also sections of the famous Vasari Corridor, built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari.  It is a covered walk way, almost a kilometre in length, an overhead passageway that starts out from the West Corridor of the Uffizi Gallery, heads towards the Arno and then, raised up by huge arches, follows the river as far as the Ponte Vecchio, which it crosses by passing on top of the shops. The meat market on the bridge was at this time transferred elsewhere and replaced (from 1593) with the goldsmiths who continue to work there today.  On the other side of the Arno, the corridor passes through the interior of the church of Santa Felicita, along the tops of the houses and the gardens of the Guicciardini family until it finally reaches the Boboli gardens (one of the exits is by Buontalenti’s Grotto) and the apartments in the Pitti Palace.