ROMAPEDIA: Via Vittoria Colonna

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Sunday, December 24, 2017

CAVOUR BRIDGE

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

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