BOAT TEVERE

A boat to sail across the Tevere

Useful informations.
Places of departure and arrival: Ponte Duca d’Aosta – Isola Tiberina (first part). Ponte Marconi – Ostia Antica (second part).
How to get there by public transports: from the station Termini take the underground A till the Ottaviano stop and from here take the line 32 due Tor di Quinto till the stop De Bosis/Stadio Tennis (to Ponte duca d’Aosta) from the station Termini take the line 170 and get off the stop Gugliemo Marconi (ponte).
How to get there by car: the area is easily achievable taking the ring road and following the signs for foro Italico.
(to Ponte Duca d’Aosta) you should go along the Lungotevere till Piazza Sonnino, than take Viale trastevere and go along it entirely till Via degli Orti di Cesare: this one takes you to Viale Marconi, to across till the bridge (to Ponte Marconi).
Hours of service: October – May 7,30 – 20,00; June – September 7,30 – 24,00; break of service: 13,30 – 15,30.
Departure every 20 minutes.
Nowadays in Rome the Lungotevere is one of the most evocative and romantic tour to cross. In fact it is possible to walk along the Lungotevere’s banks and observe its flow from many historical bridges; or to walk on the Tevere’s shore, today clean, on foot or by bike and enjoy the beautiful citizen foreshortenings.
From 2003 Rome’s district has inaugurated a boat that crosses some Tevere’s parts, among many proposals it is also possible to cross this river way at the price of a bus ticket. Otherwise exist other tourist proposals with superior costs.
The navigation on river Tevere is allowed from the Ponte Duca d’Aosta, that connects the quartiere Flaminio with the Foro Italico, till the characteristic Isola Tiberina. Tevere is traversable also from Ponte Marconi, than joins the quartiere Trastevere, to the Eur till to Ostia.

Urban way
The port of embarkation is at Ponte duca d’Aosta and the boat stops at the bridges: Risorgimento, Cavour, S. Angelo, Sisto, Isola Tiberina and Ripa grande. During this beautiful tour you have the possibility to observe from a different point of view some Rome’s monuments situated along the course of Tevere.
The Palazzo di Giustizia is a huge building with a rectangular plan realized in travertine on the architect Gugliemo Calderoli’s project. On the summit of building Ettore Ximenes’ sculpture in bronze represents a cart drawn by four horses. In the frontage next to the slip roads, there are big statues of famous jurists realized by different authors. In the central gateway Quattrini's sculpture of “Giustizia tra la legge e la forza: Justice between the law and the strength”.

Vatican Rome with Castel Sant’Angelo and San Pietro.
The Isola Tiberina has the characteristic shape of a ship wanted by old Romans to remember a miraculous event: during a pestilence that hit Rome a snake, Esculapio’s symbol, fell down from a ship that brought a statue of god and swam toward the Isle. Romans was so struck to erect here the temple devoted to god and to modify the isle so that it remembered the shape of a ship. A part of the covering in travertine that confers to the isle the shape of a ship is still visible on the oriental side of isle. Then the isle is historically joined to the medicine in fact the Palazzo Caetani become a Franciscan convent that in case of pestilence was used as lazaretto, then during the twentieth century was given in use to the Israelite hospital and at last in the second postwar arrived the hospital Fatebenefratelli.

The Tevere and Roma – history.
Since the birth of the city, The Tevere  was source of life for Rome, the first settlement was on Palation’s hill near to the river and in the same Romolo and Remo’s myth there are already references to the rivers. The Tevere was seen above all as a resource for the realization of sewers and river mills and one was worried to build bridges for its crossing, but of course they was not built near elegant houses, on the contrary the Romans tried to keep themselves aloof and to separate it from the city, this was because the river had a great water excursion and during the centuries it often caused floods, also disastrous. The river took importance also as way of connection and by means of it the goods arrived in Rome above all in imperial age. After the flood of 1870 was realized a series of works for the restraint of river and the protection of city, the most important was the realization of the massive walls on the example of Senna one. The reason of the exceptional height of the massive walls (15 meters) is just the great water excursion of Tevere that is biggest of Senna one. When you arrive at Porto di Ripa Grande you should across the bridge of Ripa and take the bus 716 for piazzale Ostiense where you find the stop of Underground B. On the contrary if you have got the car, you can wait the departure of first boat to come back.
From Rome to Ostia.
The second navigable stretch of the river from Ponte Marconi to Ostia Antica is characterized as a naturalistic tour, in fact the society that manage the service of boats organizes also tour as didactic trip of naturalistic observation, but since the point of arrival is near the archaeological excavations of Ostia Antica you can join a visit to the excavations or to the Castello di Giulio II.

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