Ponte Cestio

Ponte Cestio

This stone bridge was built in the first century B.C.E. and links Rome’s historic center to Tiber Island. The bridge has been substantially rebuilt over the centuries. Today, it is built of grey stone...

Bridge Linking Trastevere and Tiber Island

Tiber Island is linked to the mainland by two bridges. Ponte Cestius is the one on the Trastevere side. It is an unremarkable stone bridge with three arches. There has been a bridge here since the ...

Younger than the neighboring Ponte Rotto by about a century.

You may have already met the name Cestius on the map of Rome. This refers to the famous pyramid of Cestius. However, it was built by the brother of Lucius Cestius, to whom the construction of this bri...

Trastevere connection to Tiberina Island

Original Text

This stone bridge is large and long, allows access from the Trastevere neighborhood to the Tiberina Island.

Atraviesa El Roo Tiber

Original Text

It is the other bridge that crosses the Tiber River and connects the island of Tiberina with the Trastevere neighborhood.