Ponte Duca d'Aosta
Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 52 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 40 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Tiber | |
| place | Rome | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 220 m | |
| width | 30 m | |
| Number of openings | 3 | |
| start of building | 1939 | |
| completion | 1942 | |
| planner | Vincenzo Fasolo | |
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Ponte Duca d'Aosta is a road bridge that leads over the Tiber to Foro Italico (formerly Foro Mussolini) in Rome .
The stone arch bridge is 220 meters long and 30 meters wide and has three arches. The middle arch overcomes the navigable Tiber at normal water levels. On the left and right are the arches that are supposed to ensure the flow of water during floods.
It consists entirely of natural stone, predominantly Carrara marble ; only individual parts, such as the cover of the bridge railing and the stairs that lead down to the Tiber, are made of Roman travertine from the nearby Tivoli . There are pylons with semi-plastic reliefs on the bridgeheads .
The bridge is considered to be one of the most elegant bridges in Rome. It is an integral part of the Foro Italico and lies on an axis with the Mussolini obelisk and the spherical fountain in front of the Olympic Stadium in Rome . The Ponte Duca d'Aosta is also an example of building in Italian fascism by Mussolini , who wanted to conceal the poor economic situation in Italy with large orders and wanted to build on ancient traditions of Rome with the Foro Italico.
It was built by the architect Vincenzo Fasolo from 1939 to 1942.
The name of the bridge goes back to Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta , an Italian general of the First World War who, despite the defeat in the Battle of Goodfrey, maintained the Italian front on the Piave River and later occupied parts of Friuli .