Crosses River Tiber Construction begin 1909 Opened 17 April 1911 Width 21 m Body of water Tiber | Longest span 100.00 m (328.1 ft) Construction end 1911 Total length 159 m Material Reinforced concrete | |
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Locale Rome, Flaminio and Della Vittoria Quarters, Italy Designer Giovanni Antonio Porcheddu Similar Tiber, Ponte Giacomo Matteotti, Ponte Duca d'Aosta, Ponte Regina Margherita, Ponte Pietro Nenni | ||
Ponte del Risorgimento (or briefly Ponte Risorgimento) is a bridge that links Piazzale delle Belle Arti to Piazza Monte Grappa in Rome (Italy), in the Flaminio and Della Vittoria quarters.
History and description
The bridge links the area of Lungotevere delle Armi to Piazzale delle Belle Arti.
The works for the building began in 1909 and were completed two years later. The bridge was designed and built by Giovanni Antonio Porcheddu, with the cooperation of the engineers Giaj and Parvopassu, on the occasion of the exhibition for celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Italian unification. It is the first bridge in Rome made in reinforced concrete, since its creator, at that time, was the only Italian dealer of the patent of the Belgian François Hennebique.
The day of the inauguration (April 17, 1911), the spectators doubted that the structure, after the removal of the supporting scaffoldings, wouldn't have stood up; on the contrary, Porcheddu was so sure about the effectiveness and reliability of the new technique that he wanted to attend the demolition of the scaffolding on a little boat just below the arch of the bridge, together with his two youngest kids, Giuseppe and Ambrogia. During the ceremony, King Victor Emmanuel III offered Porcheddu the epithet "King of reinforced concrete".
In the middle of the bridge, on both bulwarks, are two inscriptions:
on one side, and
on the other.
