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Historic district: Rione Ponte of Rome

The Rione Ponte, the fifth of Rome’s historic districts (R. V), takes its name from the Ponte Sant’Angelo, built by Emperor Hadrian in 134 AD to connect his mausoleum to the rest of the city. Its coat of arms symbolizes this bridge.

It is located on a bend of the Tiber, part of the Campus Martius in antiquity.
Since the Middle Ages, it has been a lively district, serving as a key passage for pilgrims traveling to the Vatican, fostering a thriving economy with inns, restaurants, and shops selling sacred objects. At the same time, a dense urban fabric of winding streets and intimate squares developed. Later, aristocratic palaces were built from the Renaissance onward, as seen along Via dei Coronari and Via Giulia.

Despite frequent flooding of the Tiber, the district has preserved its medieval and Renaissance charm and its fine buildings. Its appearance was modified after 1870 with the construction of the Tiber embankments and Via Vittorio Emanuele II.

Via Giulia in Rome

Via Giulia, almost one kilometer long, is one of the oldest streets in Rome, of great historical and architectural importance. It was known as Via Magistralis (main street in Italian) in the Middle Ages, later redesigned at the beginning of the 16th century on the initiative of Pope Julius II and named after him. The […]

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