PIETRO NENNI BRIDGE

PONTE PIETRO NENNI

Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia/Lungotevere Michelangelo

1974 Silvano Zorzi (1921/94) who executed a 1965 project by Luigi Moretti (1907/73)

It was opened only in 1980 when the Line A of the Rome Metro was completed

It is 121,60 m (399 feet) long

It is also known as PONTE DELLA METROPOLITANA (Metro Bridge)

“In the sixties Silvano Zorzi is among the first in Italy to deal with the design of bridges and viaducts in the system of the overhang structures (horizontal beams firmly connected to one end only). In industrial manufacturing, in marine and ground installations he researches typological solutions through the design of industrially produced building components. His whole production moves from the knowledge that the engineering artifacts are permanent architectures of the landscape and then he looks for the structural lightness, constructive and figurative” (G.L. Ciagà - Gli archivi di architettura in Lombardia. Censimento delle fonti)

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

PALACE OF IMI AND OF THE ITALIAN EXCHANGE INSTITUTE

PALAZZO DELL'IMI E DELL'ISTITUTO ITALIANO CAMBI

Via Quattro Fontane 121

1953/56 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) in collaboration with the Studio Passarelli

The IMI was the ISTITUTO MOBILIARE ITALIANO (Italian Chattels Institute) founded in 1931

In 1998 it merged with the ISTITUTO SAN PAOLO and became SANPAOLO IMI

“One of the first major competitions in Rome after the war. The project has two aspects. The front on Via Quattro Fontane, between S. Carlino by Borromini and an austere convent building, conveys the relationship between past, existing buildings, the environment, with topical thoughtful novelties” (Official Website Studio Passarelli - www.studiopassarelli.it)

PALACE OF THE MINISTRY OF PARDON AND JUSTICE

PALAZZO DEL MINISTERO DI GRAZIA E GIUSTIZIA

Via Arenula 69

1913/24 Pio Piacentini (1846/1928), who in 1932 also designed the expansion of the rear wing with the extra floor

It is also known as PALAZZO PIACENTINI

Specialized juridical library with about 250,000 volumes

PALACE FOR OFFICES OF THE "PEOPLE'S BANK OF MILAN"

PALAZZO DEGLI UFFICI DELLA BANCA POPOLARE DI MILANO

Piazzale Flaminio 1

1972/73 by Luigi Moretti (1907/73) with the collaboration of Carlo Zacutti

It was one of the last works of the great Roman architect who expressed himself here in a style known as “international” very contrasting with the nineteenth-century buildings of the square, with the Mannerist Porta del Popolo and with the ancient Aurelian Walls

“Through the decorative invention and the refinement of coatings, not only Moretti testifies and investigates the possible wisdoms of tradition, but he triggers a powerful mechanism of dematerialization, calls into question the meaning of the architectural structure itself, reaching an aura of metaphysical abstraction” (Maristella Casciato)

ANTONELLI PALACE

PALAZZO ANTONELLI

Largo Magnanapoli 158

Built in the sixteenth century. The exact date and the name of the architect are unknown

Renovated 1854/69 by Andrea Busiri Vici (1818/1911) for Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli, who never actually lived here, preferring his other palace on Via di Monserrato now known as Palazzo Capponi Antonelli

It was used to store the valuable and rare collection of sixteenth century precious stones owned by the family

It was also renovated in 1875 for the opening of Via Nazionale when the garden ended up being wiped out

Now there are offices of the Bank of Italy, which owns the property

At the end of the atrium there is a section of the Servian Wall dating back to 378 BC with an arch of tufa blocks forming part of a room for ballistic catapults