page_title: Arts in Rome
section_title: Bridges
hierarchical_section_title: Arts in Rome / Architecture / Historical buildings / Bridges
caption_attribution_description: English: Castel Sant'Angelo, Roma. Rainer Zenz was kind enough to enhance the colors of the original image. Because this new image is used at some pages we keep these two versions. Photo was taken using the following technique: Film: Fuji Velvia Lens:	2.8/28 Filter: none Body: Minolta 9000 Support: Manfrotto 190B Source: http://fam-tille.de/sparetime.html Image with Information in English Bild mit Informationen auf Deutsch
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  These art forms are not only seen in the city's visual arts, but its structures and customs such as ancient buildings and streets. As a center of cultural for many centuries, Rome has gathered its art from distant places and times. There is art everywhere you turn in Rome due to its long and rich history.
context_section_description: The first Roman bridges, made after the conquest of the left side of the Tiber, were built in wood, so that they would be ready to be destroyed in case of enemy attack. As a matter of fact, the first bridge in masonry, the Ponte Milvio, was made in the 2nd century BC, and is located in the point where three major northern consular roads (the Via Flaminia, the Via Cassia and Via Clodia).
  The Romans gave the Tiber an almost sacred value, hence its bridges were also specially regarded, so that those who constructed them, pontefices (from pontem facere), had priestly functions (most Roman bridges were as a matter of fact built by Popes)
  Today there are 28 bridges crossing the Tiber in Rome, while others were built for crossing the river Aniene.
caption: Ponte Sant'Angelo, which leads to the eponymous castle
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