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...

Historic crossing point

A Roman bridge connected Isola Tiburtina to the western side of the Tiber River at this point in the first century. It was rebuilt in the fourth century, and again in the 1880’s, which is what you see...

Historic Bridge

The Ponte Cestio connects the western side of Tiber Island to the Trastevere district and is believed to date back to the first century BC. Very little of that structure remains as the western channe...