Places of ector Roesler Franz. - Isola Tiberina from the west

We are upstream of the island, and this time Ponte Cestius discovers the Trastevere. Was in fact one of the most direct and rapid access to that ward, lacing up immediately on the bank of the street in Piscinula. A bank, in turn, supervised and defense in front of the river from the Tower of Alberteschi. Needless to say, this, like any other bank, clotted of ancient stones and millennial life Tiber, will be ruthlessly swept away by the landscape of the "riparian roads." As they were then called the Tiber. And the bridge work undertaken will be found to be just straddle between the Tiber and the Alberteschi Anguillara. For memory.
The contours of the island seem to "clean" from any bumps, as if to further facilitate the flow of current. It is as if we looked from Ponte Garibaldi. Although the comparison is unrecognizable. That slide, quell'attracco, it is definitely gone without for now or forever, his mill. As we shall see in other watercolors. On the front of boats and fishermen, armed at all points, is vague and sketchy. The less successful, less happy than the picture.

On the stretch of shore that can be seen on the right, for more ground and transformed by time, accanirà twenty years later, the fury of the water. On 2 December 1900 the current of the Tiber in full, a full exceptional, 16.17 meters to zero Ripetta, comes Tiber Island and find the left branch, the Ponte Quattro Capi, largely blocked by deposits of a long series of years. Huge traffic jam. With anger even more so the current is forced to flow out, almost entirely in the right branch. They were already built the levees, I repeat, the "walls", also on this side.
Another curtain support all in tufa stones with a solid coating of travertine blocks. It will be their trial by fire. Unexpectedly, however, everything will be resolved in a disastrous rout.
Perhaps at that point the turn of the wall lent too much impetuosity side of the water. From which inevitably ruinous scalzamenti of the fund and the detachment and the subsequent fall of the same walls for about 125 meters. An impressive sight. There were some photos that stop those long moments (the failure occurred by degrees), and even some sequences of cinema to its first weapons.
Three hundred feet of levees on the bank trasteverina have fallen into the river, he wrote Rodolfo Lanciani, for the readers of a magazine in London, "The Athenaeum," December 30, and nine hundred feet were tipped at an angle of 12 °. So that the whole array of defense between Ponte Garibaldi and Ripa Grande will have to be abandoned to his fate or rebuilt with the expense of about 20 million pounds. A figure even then hyperbolic.