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The Tiber and its bridges
Ponte Flaminio
It should have been called “Ponte October 28″ to celebrate the fascist glories. It was begun in 1938 following a project by architect Armando Brasini (close to it on the Via Flaminia Vecchia there is also a villa planned and built by the same architect), the building was interrupted during the war: in 1947 the building began again and its name should have been Ponte della Libertà ( Bridge of Freedom) but was then simply and classically called Flaminio. It was completed in 1952 and it also connects the area around the Olympic Village.
Ponte Milvio
It was also called “Mollo” (soft in italian) due to its flexibility; this bridge was built in 109 B.C. by Censor Marcus Aemilius Scaurus on the ruins of a pre-existing bridge that was already called Milvio from the Molvia gens. It was situated at the merging of the consular roads Flaminia, Cassia, Clodia and Veientana, and mostly had a strategic role : the keep defending the bridge bears witness to its importance. In the period of Republican Rome the clash between Catullus and Pompey troops took place close to it, as well as, centuries later (312 A.D.) Emperor Constantine’s army fought against Maxentius and his army in Saxa Rubra. This battle was going to mark the final trimph of Christianity. The bride was restored several times along the centuries; it was basically transformed by Valadier (1805) who eliminated both wooden drawbridges, completed the brickwork spans and gave the entrance keep its arched form. Then the bridge was partly destroyed by Garibaldi troops to slow down the advance of the French army in 1849 and Pope Pius IX had it rstored again by Francesco Azzurri. Since 1951 it has been exclusively used as a pedestrian bridge.
Ponte Duca d’Aosta
The bridge was planned by architect Vincenzo Fasolo, built between 1936 and 1939 and dedicated to the memory of Emaniele Filiberto di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a member of the italian royal family, who was a valiant fighter World War I when he had commanded the III Army. It si decorated with marble cippuses representing episodes of the war.