Ponte Milvio (Milvian Bridge) over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy) painted by Gaspar van Wittel

The Emperor Constantine I the Great faced his rival Maxentius in the decisive Battle of the Milvian Bridge. Constantine had a divine vision of the Christian cross the night before the battle and then won by proclaiming Christianity as the religion of the Empire.

Legend of Ponte Milvio

Ponte Umberto over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

“There’s one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there’s a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.” 

Paolo Sorrentino

Ponte Sant'Angello across the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

Autumn in Rome
My heart remembers fountains where children played
Gardens where dreams were made

Autumn in Rome
Memories like embers glow
When I seem to hear walks beneath the pines that grace the golden sky
Stopping now and then to share a lover's sigh, you and I
...

Lyrics from Autumn in Rome

Peggy Lee

Ponte Sant'Angello across the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

Quanto sei bella Roma

Quanto sei bella Roma a prima sera

Er Tevere te serve

Er Tevere te serve da cintura

San Pietro e er Campidojo da lettiera

Quanto sei bella Roma

Quanto sei bella Roma a prima sera

Lyrics from Quanto sei bella Roma

from Lando Fiorini

Ponte Sant'Angello over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

"The Roman evening either keeps still or it sings. No one can behold it without growing dizzy, and time has filled it with eternity"

Jorge Luis Borges

Ponte Sant'Angello crossing the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

O thou newcomer who seek’st Rome in Rome

And find’st in Rome no thing thou canst call Roman;

Arches worn old and palaces made common

Rome’s name alone within these walls keeps home.

Behold how pride and ruin can befall

One who hath set the whole world ’neath her laws,

All-conquering, now conquered, because

She is Time’s prey, and Time conquereth all.

Rome that art Rome’s one sole last monument,

Rome that alone hast conquered Rome the town,

Tiber alone, transient and seaward bent,

Remains of Rome. O world, thou unconstant mime!

That which stands firm in thee Time batters down,

And that which fleeteth doth outrun swift Time. 

Rome, poem by Ezra Pound

Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

A Roma ce sò venticinque ponti,

a cui se deve aggiunge quelo Rotto,

e datosi che fanno un ber filotto,

qui nun l’elenco che perdo li conti.

Er Tevere li bagna giù da sotto,

e sopra je colora l’orizzonti,

riflesso de quer cielo de tramonti,

che nun ce riuscirebbe manco Giotto.

Cestio, Cavuor, ponte Mirvio e Testaccio,

Umberto I, Sisto e Garibardi,

Marconi e er Mammolo ar Portonaccio.

Ma ‘gniuno ‘ndo te fermi e t’ ariguardi,

fa parte de ‘no stesso canovaccio:

s’accenne quann’è buio e te ce attardi…

Stefano Agostino

Ponte Sant'Angello over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

Buscas en Roma a Roma ¡oh peregrino!

y en Roma misma a Roma no la hallas:
cadáver son las que ostentó murallas
y tumba de sí proprio el Aventino.
Yace donde reinaba el Palatino

y limadas del tiempo, las medallas
más se muestran destrozo a las batallas
de las edades que Blasón Latino.
Sólo el Tibre quedó, cuya corriente,

si ciudad la regó, ya sepultura
la llora con funesto son doliente.
¡Oh Roma en tu grandeza, en tu hermosura,

huyó lo que era firme y solamente
lo fugitivo permanece y dura

Francisco de Quevedo

Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II across the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter,

And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.
To show us where she stood there rests alone
Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone.
Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away;
And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.

Joachim du Bellay

Ponte Sisto over the Tiber River in Rome (Italiy)

...So she took two trunks full of gold and left the city crossing Ponte Sisto. No one saw Donna Olimpia again, but there is a legend: a lot of people tells they have seen her ghost riding a black lorry among Ponte Sisto chuckling against Rome and romans, and they affirm that is a very scary experience. For more, post me

Legend about Ponte Sisto

Ponte Umberto over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

" A fool is the one who admires other cities without having seen Rome "

Petrarch

Ponte Sant'Angelo over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

Cuando fluye la luz,
cuando se para
el tiempo,
asomada a los puentes Roma busca
su imagen sobre el Tevere,
y en vez del nombre suyo ve que tiembla
tu nombre, amor, en el rodante espejo.

From the poem Cartas de Roma.

Meira Delmar

Ponte Sant'Angelo over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

Beatrice Cenci became a symbol for the people of Rome of resistance against the arrogant aristocracy, and a legend arose. It related that every year on the night before the anniversary of her death, she was said to come back to the Sant'Angelo bridge where she was executed, carrying her severed head.

Legend 

Bridges of the Tiber Island over the Tiber River in Rome (Italy)

The island formed after the fall of the tyrannical king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, in 510 BC. The angry Romans threw his body into the Tiber, it sunk and accumulated dirt and silt, eventually forming the island.

Legend of the Tiber Island