L' Ephémère In Roma

It is a nice bridge that tourists pass over and under which locals who do sports and want to get fresh air pass. If I had a little more time in Rome, I would definitely run along the Tiber river.

It does not have the beauty of the Vecchio Bridge but it allows for some very nice photos of the river and other points

Good afternoon. Even without knowing the history of this bridge, you can admire it for a long time. Beautiful scenery with the fast flow of the Tiber River.

Ponte Cestio, also known as pons Aurelius, pons Gratiani, San Bartolomeo bridge or Ferrato bridge, is a bridge in Rome over the Tiber river, a nineteenth-century reconstruction of the Roman bridge of the same name. It is one of the two bridges in the capital that does not directly connect the opposite banks of the river: like the neighboring Fabricio bridge, in fact, it connects the Tiber Island with one of the two banks, in this case the right one, at the height of Lungotevere degli Anguillara, near Piazza in Piscinula, in Trastevere. The bridge was built by Lucius Cestius in 46 or 44 BC, symmetrically to the Fabricius bridge. It underwent a first restoration in 152, under Antoninus Pius, and an inscription commemorating this restoration was placed on the parapet of the bridge, but it was completely rebuilt in 365 with reused materials, also coming from the nearby Theater of Marcellus, by the emperors Valentinian I, Valens and Graziano; In 370 he dedicated the latter to himself by inserting an inscription in Proconnesian marble in the upstream parapet and thus giving the bridge the new name of Pons Gratiani. The bridge was covered with travertine slabs. Another restoration, documented by an epigraph placed next to Gratian's epigraph, took place in 1191-93 by Benedetto Carushomo, senator of Rome in 1191. Other interventions took place in the 15th century under Eugene IV and in the 17th century under Innocent XI. From the 15th century it took the name of "San Bartolomeo bridge" from the Basilica of San Bartolomeo all'Isola. The bridge was seriously damaged during the siege of Rome in 1849: in particular, a second epigraph by Gratian present on the parapet downstream of the bridge was lost. In the 18th and 19th centuries it also had the name of Ponte Ferrato, due to the numerous chains that anchored the mills on the river. Due to the widening of the right bank of the Tiber near the island to 70 metres, the bridge was demolished in 1885 and rebuilt in 1889. Initially it was thought to save the central arch by widening the two lateral ones, going from 48 meters of the Roman bridge to 76 of the new bridge, but for technical reasons it was decided to completely demolish it. The stone covering material was partially recovered, but only a part of this (347 slabs) was reassembled on the central arch. The inscription on the Roman bridge relating to the restoration of 370 AD. by the emperors Valentinian I, Valens and Gratian, it was reinserted on the right abutment of the modern bridge. The new bridge is covered in travertine slabs, apart from the underarches which are covered in peperino di Albano. Ponte Cestio was restored like the nearby Fabricio bridge on the occasion of the Jubilee of 2000.

Absolutely worth seeing...Rome is Rome

Characteristic, like the Tiber Island

Ancient bridge with which you can reach the Tuberine Island, the only island on the Tiber River in Rome where there is a hospital and many homeless people sleeping on the street

Very good place in Tiveris river great forum and places to take a drink

I go to the hospital and walk there every day since the beginning of the month. It is truly a beautiful place, with the (stunningly beautiful) island in the centre. Then you can see below the avenue that runs alongside the river, equipped for the summer, which makes the view from the bridge even more suggestive. Drop by because the whole complex is one of the most characteristic points of Rome.

A beautiful bridge, it's hard to believe it is so old.