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Ponte Sant'Angelo

Historic site · Ponte, Italy

The pedestrian bridge that gives the rione its name and its coat of arms. It lies in two rioni, Ponte on the left bank and Borgo on the right. it.wikipedia's article on the rione records that the bridge belonged to the rione until Sixtus V created Borgo in the sixteenth century, and gives the arms, citing Carlo Pietrangeli, as the bridge of Sant'Angelo white on a red field.

History

Roma Capitale records that Hadrian had it built in 136 AD as the pons Aelius, to link his mausoleum to the city. It is peperino faced with travertine, with three arches, approached by ramps carried on three minor arches on the left bank and two on the right; the right-bank ramp arches were destroyed in 1893 for the embankment works and replaced with modern ones. Ricimer's Gothic troops used the bridge in July 472. In 1668 ten statues of angels bearing the symbols of the Passion were added. Roma Capitale records that Bernini designed the figures at Clement IX's commission and entrusted their execution to his pupils.

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