From the Diary of Claude Monet (1884)

Western Liguria has dozens of stone bridges that span brooks and rivulets. Perhaps none is more famous than the bridge at Dolceacqua, a town in the entroterra of Ventimiglia and Bordighera where Liguria’s best-known red wine, Rossese di Dolceacqua, is produced. This bridge was built after a previous one collapsed in the fifteenth century. It is remarkably delicate, especially given that it is 107 feet/33 meters long. To me it looks as if it is made of spun sugar — its ethereal nature has always captivated visitors, at least as much as the delicious local food and wine, about which Monet did not comment.