Florence is seeped in history. It is a place that radiates this kind of old magic that is hard to pinpoint but easy to feel. It comes from the Renaissance and the centuries since. I always love to experience something different in the aura of familiar landmarks, like the millenium-old Ponte Vecchio. After the clouds parted, a lovely light draped it in utter calm. Even the crowds seemed to diminish their noise at this moment. I felt that old magic very strongly.