Lungotevere Marzio 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 constru ...

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

, Italy, that connects Piazza di

Ponte Umberto I Ponte Umberto I, also known as Ponte Umberto, is a bridge that links Piazza di Ponte Umberto I to Piazza dei Tribunali in Rome (Italy), in the rioni Ponte and Prati. Description The bridge was designed by architect Angelo Vescovali and built b ...

with Piazza del

Porto di Ripetta The Porto di Ripetta was a port in the city of Rome. It was situated on the banks of the River Tiber and was designed and built in 1704 by the Italian Baroque architect Alessandro Specchi. Located in front of the church of San Girolamo degli Sch ...

, in the

rioni The Rioni ( ka, რიონი, ; , ) is the main river of western Georgia (country), Georgia. It originates in the Caucasus Mountains, in the region of Racha and flows west to the Black Sea, entering it north of the city of Poti (near ancient P ...

Campo Marzio Campo Marzio is the 4th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. IV. It belongs to the Municipio I and covers a smaller section of the area of the ancient ''Campus Martius''. The logo of this rione is a silver crescent on a blue backgroun ...

and Ponte. The Lungotevere takes its name from the Campus Martius, an area dedicated to the god Mars; was established by resolution of 20 July 1887. The lungotevere is located between the

ponte Umberto I Ponte Umberto I, also known as Ponte Umberto, is a bridge that links Piazza di Ponte Umberto I to Piazza dei Tribunali in Rome (Italy), in the rioni Ponte and Prati. Description The bridge was designed by architect Angelo Vescovali and built b ...

and

ponte Cavour Ponte Cavour is a bridge in Rome (Italy), connecting Piazza del Porto di Ripetta to Lungotevere dei Mellini, in the '' Rioni'' Campo Marzio and Prati. The bridge also serves as a connection between and the area of Campo Marzio near the Ara Pa ...

; it has some fine buildings, like the

Borghese The House of Borghese is a princely family of Italian noble and papal background, originating as the Borghese or Borghesi in Siena, where they came to prominence in the 13th century and held offices under the ''commune''. During the 16th century, ...

cottage, designed by Filippo Galassi and built in 1886, a palace built by Cesare Valle in 1932 and the first example of

rationalist architecture In architecture, Rationalism is an architectural current which mostly developed from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. Vitruvius had claimed in his work ''De architectura'' that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally. The formu ...

in the residential field in the city, the facade of the Bonanni house designed by the architects Ernesto and Gaetano Rapisardi in 1933.Roma, Comune, Dip. IX, Archivio, Ispettorato edilizio, prot. 2815/1933. See A. Pica, ''Nuova architettura italiana'' (Quaderni della Triennale, 14), Milano 1936, p. 21.

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Marzio Marzio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about north of Varese. The origin of the name ''"Marzio"'' could derive from the Latin name "Marcius" or it could ...

Streets in Rome R. IV Campo Marzio Streets in Rome R. V Ponte