Ponte Sisto
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The Ponte Sisto is a bridge that spans the Tiber River at Rome. In the present-day city, it links the Via dei Pettinari (Rione of Regola) to the Piazza Trilussa in Trastevere. The bridge was commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV and was built between 1473 and 1479. Its architect, Baccio Pontelli, reused the piers of the ancient Roman Pons Aurelius, which had come to be known as the Pons Antoninus in Late Antiquity. That bridge was at least partially destroyed in the 770s.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/726542221
41.892340237, 12.4707460763
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ponte Sisto (AD 1400 - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ponte Sisto (Italian, modern)
- Ponte Sisto succeeds Pons Aurelius (unspecified date range)
- Ponte Sisto located at Roma (unspecified date range)
- Ponte Sisto crosses Tiberis (river) (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Ponte Sisto: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/726542221> [accessed: 24 June 2025]
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