Ponte Regina Margherita

Three walled-up arches (length: 103,1 m / width: 20,9 m)

When you arrive, along the shore, at the point of the Tiber, where the floats are docked in the "Tevere Remo" and "Rare Nantes", a meeting place for many Romans, you will find yourself under the arches of the Bridge dedicated to Queen Margherita of Savoy, first sovereign of Italy, "beautiful face and great heart."

The opening put the full stop to the use of boats and ferries. Toto er Bigio, was reached to garments of walks of Ripetta the Prati di Castello, where you could enjoy the real Roman cousine al fresco or the wineyard. Toto's boat, flat buttom, bow and stern alike, came forward and backword, securedby rope streached betrween the two sides and driven by a pole. Written in 1964: From the begeining of '500 was sought at the ferry to neutrileze the effect of the stream by a rope streachet between the two shores. The boat was covered with a tent to procect the passengers from sun and rain. Later it was replaced by a real wood cab with dual pitched roof. This is the "boat" which recalles beautiful in the sonnet "Er Flood" by comparing the ark of Noah.

By Regina Margherita Bridge suicides were jumping often tired of life, to finish in the swirling river. It is sad that the first suicide was the same foreman who had provided input to the construction of the bridge.