Ponte Regina Margherita, Rome

Ponte Regina Margherita carries you across the Tiber on a direct route between the Prati district and Piazza del Popolo. Its broad stone structure is faced in travertine, and the river passes beneath a measured rhythm of arches. Angelo Vescovali designed the bridge, which rose during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and opened in eighteen ninety-one.

It was Rome’s earliest new masonry crossing of the Tiber after centuries without another. The bridge takes its name from Margherita of Savoy, Italy’s inaugural queen. Its long, low profile makes a calm seam between the embankments rather than a dramatic interruption: this is civic engineering made to join neighbourhoods, with the substantial presence of Roman stone.