Example sentences for: ponte

How can you use “ponte” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Ponte Vecchio, intact since 1345, was Florence’s first, and for centuries only, bridge.

  • The Ponte 25 de Abril, across the River Tagus, became the longest suspension bridge in Europe when it was opened to traffic in 1966.

  • Follow the Calle Larga Giacinto Gallina to the humpbacked Ponte del Cavallo bridge for the all-important first view of the piazza’s magnificent equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, considered one of the finest in the world.

  • For those hoping to go from the sublime to the sinister, the palace prisons, neat and tidy today along their narrow corridor, become all too romantic with their 17th-century Baroque Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri).

  • The Ponte Santa Trinita, destroyed in 1944, has been rebuilt with the original 16th-century masonry scooped from the bottom of the river, including statues of the Four Seasons.


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