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Ponte Garibaldi is one of the bridges built during the Risorgimento, result of an accurate work of reclamation and amelioration of the Tiber river’s banks and arrangement. The infrastructural works were required in order to ...
Ponte Tor di Quinto is one of the more northen bridges of the Tiber river. It is located in a quarter considered to be a very suburban area until 1930-40s. It was a mainly rural, ...
Walking down the Tiber it’s easy to run into a bridge. The Tiber bridges, nevertheless, suffer a little from the inattentive attitude of visitors walking across them. This is caused by the incredible beauty of ...
“Here is born the river / sacred to the destinies of Rome” This is the inscription placed at the source of the Tiber, on Mount Fumaiolo, in Emilia-Romagna. Its waters flow 405 Km before they ...
Ponte Duca d’Aosta represents a great example of engineering and modern architecture in the Capital. It is in fact a reinforced concrete bridge with a single arch whose dimensions are absolutely remarkable: 220 metres long ...
Another set of architecture not to be missed by visitors in Rome is the one of its marvelous villas, with Villa Borghese as one of the most famous and visited. The diffusion of the model ...
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The Turtle Fountain can be found in the heart of Rome on Piazza Mattei. It dates from the second half of the 16th century and is something of a relative to the more famous Trevi ...
Here we are with another walk we want to suggest to our readers, that links San Carlino to the Quattro Fontane (Saint Charles at the Four Fountains) precisely to four fountains! The route goes through ...
The Fountain of the Frogs is an extraordinary episode in the story of Rome’s fountains. It stands at the centre of Piazza Mincio in a northeastern city neighbourhood known and the “Quartiere Trieste”. This is ...
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San Carlino and… Four fountainsDec 7, 2018
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