HUMBERT I BRIDGE

PONTE UMBERTO I

Piazza dei Tribunali/Via Zanardelli

1885/95 Angelo Vescovali (1826/95) head of the municipal hydraulic office who, besides this, designed four other bridges in the center of Rome (Garibaldi, Cavour, Regina Margherita and Palatino)

It is 105.65 m (346 feet) long

The work lasted ten years as a result of the works for the construction of the embankments of the Tiber River that left no space for the bridge's construction site

QUEEN MARGHERITA BRIDGE

PONTE REGINA MARGHERITA

Piazza della Libertà/Via Ferdinando di Savoia

1886/91 Angelo Vescovali (1826/95)

It is 103.10 m long (338 feet)

It connected the then new Prati District, still under construction at the time, with the center of Rome

The bridge had many stability issues with various adjustments but it is now very solid

In PIAZZA DELLA LIBERTÀ (Liberty Square), just a few years earlier connected to the center of Rome with the bridge, the SOCIETÀ SPORTIVA LAZIO was born on January 9, 1900

It is the largest sports club in Europe and boasts a football section team that was the first ever to play football in Rome

PALATINE BRIDGE

PONTE PALATINO

Via Lungarina/Piazza Bocca della Verità 

1886/90 Angelo Vescovali (1826/95)

Measuring 155 m (508.5 feet), it is the longest bridge in Rome

In order to build it two arches of the Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge) were torn down

It is also known as the English Bridge for the traffic on the left

Many accidents have occurred on the bridge, some of them fatal, so as to give it the reputation of cursed bridge

Near the end of the right is the outlet of the CLOACA MAXIMA the ancient sewer coming from the area of ​the Forum of Nerva dating back to the sixth century BC

Originally the pipe ran in the open. Between the second and first century BC a vault in tuff stone was built in, buried in various points in restorations with concrete or brickwork

GARIBALDI BRIDGE

PONTE GARIBALDI

Piazza Gioacchino Belli/Via Arenula

1884/88 Angelo Vescovali (1826/95)

The original two-bay bridge in metal, resting on a central pylon and two shoulders covered with travertine, was enlarged and rebuilt in concrete in the years 1955/57 by the engineer and mathematician from Trieste Giulio Krall (1901/71)

It is 120.40 m (395 feet) long

The first name was PONTE ALLA REGOLA (Bridge of the Regola district) but it was later dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807/22) of whom are mentioned eight battles he won in the markings on the “Four Pillars” on the ends of the bridge

CAVOUR BRIDGE

PONTE CAVOUR

Via Vittoria Colonna/Piazza del Porto di Ripetta

1896/1901 from the design of the Milanese Angelo Vescovali (1826/95) head of the municipal hydraulic office who, besides this, designed four other bridges in the center of Rome (Garibaldi, Umberto I, Regina Margherita and Palatino)

To build it was unfortunately necessary to destroy the beautiful Port of Ripetta by Alessandro Specchi

WALLS ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER TIBER

MURAGLIONI DEL TEVERE

Lungoteveri

17 m (56 feet) high

Built from 1875 until 1905 by Raffaele Canevari (1828/1900) and Angelo Vescovali (1826/95)

The last section, under the Aventine Hill, was only built in 1925

Most of the work took place around 1890

Giuseppe Garibaldi was among the ones who strongly lobbied to build the walls

There had been a large flood on December 28, 1870, just two months after the Breach of Porta Pia: the height of the River Tiber had reached 17.22 m (56.5 feet), the largest flood since 1637

The River Tiber has an average flow rate of about 240 m³/s, (8,500 cubic feet/s) significantly lower than the main rivers of the world (the Seine has a capacity of about 500 m³/s - 17,500 cubic feet/s - the Nile about 3,000 m³/s - 106,000 cubic feet/s) but it can also increase tenfold during major floods

It is estimated that in the flood of December 24, 1598, the largest ever recorded, the flow of the river reached 4,000 m³/s (141,000 cubic feet/s). On that occasion the Ponte S. Maria or Ponte Senatorio was destroyed and it has been known as the Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge) ever since