Ponte a Buriano is the Romanesque bridge along the Setteponti Road represented on the background of Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci. Somone says this is a legend but here everyone you speak with is quite sure: that s it. The background of the Mona Lisa is a landscape that in effect is very similar to the view of Ponte a Buriano that you can see in our video. If you look to the Mona Lisa the bridge is perceptible in the right far background. This theory is by the palaeontologist Carlo Starnazzi and the computer expert Claudio Satori. They compared the images in the picture with current photos and old paintings of that place until they found reference points. quicktime 15,5 mb wmv 8,9 mb Mona Lisa on Wikipedia Ponte a Buriano Natural Reservoir Google Map This work allowed them also to find out that Leonardo painted the landscape looking as a bird from the Quarata Castle, disappeared today, where he stayed for a period of time under the hospitality of the commander Vitellozo Vitelli. Therefore, it represents a real place in the geography of the Italian Tuscany. The Ponte a Buriano area became some years ago a Natural Reservoir of the Arno River.
