Il Tevere e i suoi margini: da Ponte Milvio a Ponte dell'Industria

THE TIBER RIVER AND ITS SURROUNDINGS: FROM THE MILVIO BRIDGE TO THE INDUSTRIA BRIDGE The panel presented describes the various stages of research that were carried out on the Tevere River and its surroundings. It therefore highlights the concrete, conceptual and theoretical relationships that exist between the River and the city; broken relationships that were altered by transparencies and closures. The River represents the line of separation that exists between fantasy and reality: observing, knowing and, subsequently, interpreting a place involves a careful and meticulous research of its contents and history, but also of all other information to create a vision of unity. The Tevere River forms two large loops as it crosses Rome: the first is found between the Flaminio Bridge and the Risorgimento Bridge, the second between the Cavour Bridge and the Tiberina Isle, which is delimited by the area of Campo Marzio, one of the most densely populated areas of Rome until the end of the republican period. When the rivers are full, they have a tendency to fully "cut through the loops" and, naturally, this pushed the Tevere River to find its way through the urban center of the city. It was precisely the design of this path that led to the construction of the walls, which have definitively changed its appearance.