Example sentences for: vecchio

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

  • The Palazzo Bianco (number 11) makes a handsome setting for Genoa’s most important art collection, mostly the work of Genoese painters: Cambiaso, Strozzi, and Magnasco, as well as works by Pontormo and Palma il Vecchio, and the Flemish school —  Rubens, Gérard David, and Van Dyck.

  • After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.

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

  • The Ponte Vecchio is the most picturesque place to shop for pricey but gorgeous gold and silver jewelry, designed with centuries of learned expertise.

  • The Uffizi museum of Italian and European painting stretches in a long U-shape from the Palazzo Vecchio down to the Arno river and back.


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