Lungotevere Castello is the stretch of

Lungotevere Lungotevere (Italian for ''Tiber Waterfront'') is an alley or boulevard running along the river Tiber within the city of Rome. The building of the Lungoteveres required the demolition of the former edifices along the river banks and the constr ...

that links ''Piazza di

Ponte Sant'Angelo Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed maus ...

'' to ''Piazza dei Tribunali'', in

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(

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), in the

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Borgo and

Prati Prati is the 22nd ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XXII. It belongs to the Municipio I since 2013, while previously, along with Borgo and ''quartieri'' Trionfale and Della Vittoria, it was part of the Municipio XVII. Its coat of ...

. The Lungotevere takes its name from the Mausoleum of Hadrian, better known as Castel Sant'Angelo, erected by Emperor Hadrian between 134 and 139. Several churches, then demolished or no more existing, formerly rose in the area: among them, Sant'Antonio della Mole Adriana, Sant'Angelo ''de Castro Sancti Angeli'', the Chapel of the Holy Rosary and San Tommaso ''de Castro Sancti Angeli''. In the environs of the castle there was an estate, called ''Arenaccio'' (

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for "Bad Strand") due to the vicinity to the strand of river

Tiber The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest List of rivers of Italy, river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where ...

: it was employed for military and circus performances.Rendina-Paradisi (2004), p. 332-333

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*{{cite book, first1=Claudio, last1=Rendina, first2=Donatella, last2=Paradisi, title=Le strade di Roma. First volume A-D, year=2004, publisher=Newton Compton Editori, location=Rome, isbn=88-541-0208-3 Castello Streets in Rome R. XIV Borgo Streets in Rome R. XXII Prati Castello