e. Trastevere.
Electric Tramway from the Piazza delle Terme viâ the Piazza
Venezia and the Ponte Garibaldi, see No. 3 in the Appendix.
The Janiculum (275 ft.) rises to a commanding height near the
river, the banks of which were connected in ancient times by the
Pons Subliclus, a wooden bridge, which was removed in times of
danger. No mention of a fortification on the Janiculum is made
until near the close of the republican period. The hill was annexed
to the city by Augustus as a 14th quarter, which he named the
Regio Transtiberina. The banks of the Tiber here were bordered
with handsome villas, but the quarter always retained the character
of a suburb, and was much frequented by foreigners, particularly
by Jews, who formed a community here down to the beginning of
the 16th cent. (comp. p. 267). Trastevere is now inhabited almost
exclusively by the working classes, among whom many well-built
and handsome persons of both sexes will be observed. The in-
habitants of Trastevere maintain that they are the most direct
descendants of the ancient Romans, and their character and dialect
differ in many respects from those of the citizens of other quarters.
The northernmost of the bridges by which Trastevere is con-
nected with the city is the new Ponte Gianicolense (p. 265). The
next, downstream, is the Ponte Sisto (Pl. II, 10, 13), constructed
under Sixtus IV., in 1474, on the site of the Pons Valentiniani,
built in A.D. 366 by Symmachus, prefect of the city. — Opposite is
the Fontanone di Ponte Sisto, re-erected here in 1899. This
fountain was constructed under Paul V. by Giov. Fontana in 1613
at the other end of the bridge, whence it was removed in 1879. To
the right the Via di Ponte Sisto leads in 3 min. to the broad Via
Garibaldi, a little on this side of the Porta Settimiana (p. 418),
which ascends to San Pietro in Montorio (p. 423). The side-streets
to the left lead to Santa Maria in Trastevere (p. 420).
Below the Ponte Sisto the Tiber is spanned by the Ponte
Garibaldi (Pl. II, 13), an iron bridge with two spans of 180 ft.,
built in 1885-88. At the Trastevere end of the bridge is the Piazza
d'Italia, which is traversed by the main street of Trastevere, the Via
della Lungaretta. To the left is the Torre degli Anguillara,
built in the 12th cent. by the powerful Count Anguillara (p. 118),
a scion of the Orsini family, and well restored in 1902. With the
remains of the adjoining fortified mansion, this forms one of the
largest private buildings of mediæval Rome. It contains a collec-
tion of architectural fragments, coats-of-arms, and other mediæval
objects (adm. daily from 9 a.m., with permesso from the Uffizio II
Municipale, Via de' Barbieri). View from the tower.
The church of San Crisógono (PL II, 13) is a basilica of early