1904/08
designed by the engineers Viani and Moretti
Its first
name was PONTE GIANICOLENSE so called for its location beneath the
Janiculum Hill
It is
106.15 m long (348 feet)
Where the
right head of the bridge is now in the seventeenth century lived a witch from
Palermo called Giulia Toffana who had concocted the formula for a powerful
poison, the so-called acqua toffana (toffana water)
With her 46
female accomplices she used to sell the water to women who wanted to get rid of
their husbands and so more than six hundred men died in Rome poisoned by their
wives
She
was finally discovered and hanged with five of her accomplices in Piazza Campo
de' Fiori in 1659
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