Key facts
- Crosses
- Tiber
- Locale
- Rome
- Other name
- Aelius Bridge
- Material
- Masonry
- Total length
- 135 m (443 ft)
- Height
- 7 m (23 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Roman bridge
- Named after
- Archangel Michael
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Roma Capitale
- Material used
- stone
- Creator
- Hadrian
- Designed by
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Image
- Roma - Ponte s. Angelo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ponte Sant'Angelo (Rome)
- crosses
- Tiber
- number of spans
- 5
- longest span
- 18
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- name
- pont Sant’-Agnolo
- next crossing upstream
- Ponte Umberto I
- next crossing downstream
- Bridge Vittorio Emanuele II
- IIIF manifest URL
- gn.biblhertz.it/fotothek/api/iiif/3/werk/obj08045309/manifest
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with five arches, three of which are Roman; it was approached by means of a ramp from the river. The bridge is now solely pedestrian and provides a scenic view of Castel Sant'Angelo. It links the rioni of Ponte (which was named after the bridge itself), and Borgo, to which the bridge administratively belongs.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ponte Sant'Angelo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.