Bridge Umberto I

For the award of the work to build the bridge Umberto I was chosen in 1885 a French company accomplished its task in 1887. With regard to the structures instead of raising it commissioned another company, but not for long because there was a forced break, not knowing where and how to locate the site. The areas to be used for such use there, but a lot of it had already been occupied by the company which in the meantime had taken on the task of construction of the walls near the heads of the new bridge. They spent so many months in the inertia and in 1897 the work could be completed and the bridge had the good fortune to be inaugurated by King Umberto I in person, accompanied by his wife Margaret of Savoy. The work, created by the Allegri, was also designed to enhance functionally the Palace of Justice and its completion aesthetic. Its cost was 2.8 million dollars.

The bridge Umberto I, attracted almost elegant stately monumentality of the “Palazzaccio” seems to forget his shoulders, below street level, the picturesque corner of an abandoned medieval dress in Rome, Tor di Nona, where once was house of poverty. In that place there in 500, the papal prison, where torture of all kinds were the order of the day. I knew something Benvenuto Cellini and Giordano Bruno, the friar accused of heresy and ended up in the flames of the stake in Campo de ‘Fiori was the Valadier to change then connonati the sad place of pain, turning it into the most welcoming of Roman theaters, which takes at a later time the name of Apollo Theatre.

Length: 105.65 m.

Width: 20 m.

3 masonry arches