Pons Fabricius
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The Pons Fabricius or Ponte dei Quattro Capi, is the oldest extant bridge in Rome, Italy. Built in 62 BC, it spans half of the Tiber River, from the Campus Martius on the east side to Tiber Island in
The Pons Fabricius in 2008
Pons Fabricius as it appears in a Piranesi engraving of 1756
Pons Fabricius and Tiber island as seen from the Tiber river walkway
Ponte St. Angelo
Tiber Island
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The Tiber Island is the only river island in the part of the Tiber which runs through Rome. Tiber Island is located in the southern bend of the Tiber.
Pons Fabricius
…Quattro Capi, is the oldest extant bridge in Rome, Italy. Built in 62 BC, it spans half of the Tiber River, from the Campus Martius on the east side to Tiber Island in the middle (the Pons Cestius is west of the island). Quattro Capi ("four heads") refers to the two marble pillars of the two-faced Janus herms on…
A view of the Tiber Island.
A view on 13 December 2008 when the Tiber reached its highest level in 40 years
The Western end of Isola Tiberina. The travertine stone gives a distinctive trireme shape.
An illustration of the Tiber Island in a 1593 print.