Ponte Palatino
Historic site · Ripa, Italy
A road bridge of five spans on four massive masonry piers faced in travertine bossage, carrying a metal deck that lands at each end in the embankment walls raised after the flood of 1870. It is just over 155 m long and about 19 m wide, and joins Lungotevere Ripa to Lungotevere Aventino; Turismo Roma says it lies in the rioni Ripa and Trastevere. The Cloaca Maxima, still working, discharges on the left side at lungotevere Aventino.
History
Built between 1886 and 1890 to the design of the engineer Angelo Vescovali, with a Belgian firm specialising in iron bridges and the Officina dell'Impresa Industriale Italiana for the metalwork, to serve the crossing the Pons Aemilius had once carried. It is a plain structure without the great arches of most Roman bridges and without heavy ornament apart from the metal lattice with lozenge elements joining its sections. Romans once held the partita a rocci, or sassaiola, the mass stone-throwing between the men of Testaccio and Trastevere, on this bridge.
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