Lungotevere (Italian for ''Tiber Waterfront'') is an alley or boulevard running along the river

Tiber The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest List of rivers of Italy, river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where ...

within the city of

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History

The Lungoteveres were built with the main goal to eliminate and dam the overflows of the Tiber, due to its recurring floods. On July 6, 1875 a law was approved, getting off the demolition of the former buildings on the banks and the achievement of boulevards flanking the river and massive retaining walls (''muraglioni''); the width of the river bed was regulated up to . The Lungoteveres, inspired by the example of Paris, were designed by the engineer Raffaele Canevari, who managed to rescue the

Tiber Island The Tiber Island ( it, Isola Tiberina, Latin: ''Insula Tiberina'') is the only river island in the part of the Tiber which runs through Rome. Tiber Island is located in the southern bend of the Tiber. The island is boat-shaped, approximately ...

adding artificial rapids to the right branch of the Tiber below the Pons Caestius. Many artistically and historically significant buildings, structures and churches were demolished for the construction: among them, Palazzo Altoviti, the Teatro Apollo at Tor di Nona, Sant'Anna dei Bresciani, the Ripetta Harbour, the Roman

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(pulled down and rebuilt with wider side arches), the already damaged Roman Ponte Rotto (of which only one arch remains), some minor gates of the Aurelian Walls flanking the left bank. The

Ponte Sant'Angelo 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 maus ...

was widened too, adding two more arches. Along with these structures, the erection of the Lungotevere provoked the loss of one of the most picturesque environments of the city. The works began in 1876 and were completed in 1926; in the circumstance, several bridges were built, linking the two banks of the Tiber.

List of the Lungotevere

The list is in geographic order, from upstream to downstream.

Right bank

The stretch between Lungotevere Ripa and lungotevere Portuense is named '' Porto di Ripa Grande'' (

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Trastevere). In the quarter Portuense, a stretch of the Lungotevere della Magliana is flanked by ''Riva Pian Due Torri''.

Left bank

The stretch between Lungotevere Testaccio and Lungotevere San Paolo is named ''Riva Ostiense'' (quarter

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