Ponte Fabricio, Rome

The Pons Fabricius seen from the Tiber embankment, one of its two broad arches framing the river as it links the left bank to Tiber Island. It was finished in 62 BC and is the oldest Roman bridge in the city still standing in its original form. Its builder, the road official Lucius Fabricius, put his name in an inscription on the bridge, which you can still read. The brick facing came with later repairs and the parapet was added much later, but the tuff and peperino core is Roman. It still carries foot traffic every day, so you can walk from the old Jewish Ghetto onto the island on a deck laid down more than two thousand years ago.