Aniene

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Aniene
The Tivoli Falls.  Etching by George Loring Brown

The Tivoli Falls. Etching by George Loring Brown

Data
location Campagna Romana , Lazio , Italy
River system Tiber
Drain over Tiber  → Tyrrhenian Sea
River basin district Appennino Centrale
source in the southern Simbruin mountains
muzzle in the Roman district of Parioli in the Tiber Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ 33 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 3 ″  E 41 ° 56 ′ 33 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 3 ″  E

length 110 km
The Tivoli Falls

The Aniene (also: Teverone, Latin Anio ) is a left tributary of the Tiber , into which it flows in the Roman district of Parioli . It flows through the Campagna Romana .

It rises in the southern Simbruin Mountains and is 110 km long. At Tivoli it forms the famous waterfalls of the Villa Gregoriana .

In ancient times the Anio was the border river between Latium and the land of the Sabines . It fed two aqueducts leading to Rome , the Anio Vetus (begun in 272 BC) and the Anio Novus (built in 38 AD).

As early as the 6th century BC With the Pons Salarius there was a Roman bridge over the river, which is considered the first Roman stone bridge. It was destroyed by the Ostrogoth king Totila and restored in 569 AD.

This bridge, known today as Ponte Salario , and another Roman bridge over the Aniene, the Ponte Nomentano , were important transport links until the 19th century. The Ponte Nomentano is no longer used for motorized traffic. The Ponte Salario, however, was expanded in the 1930s and continues to transfer the Via Salaria over the river. At the height of Subiaco , the medieval Ponte di San Francesco spans the river with a considerable span of 37 m.

The Roman dam of Subiaco remained the highest in the world at an estimated 50 m until it was destroyed in 1305.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Bonatz, Fritz Leonhardt: Bridges . In: The Blue Books . 1951, p. 4 .