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Via Giulia
The via Giulia, mostly in the rione Regola, Rome, (the northern part belongs to the rione Ponte) projected by Pope Julius II but only partly carried out, was the first attempt since Antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome and the first European example since Antiquity of urban renewal. Via Giulia runs from the Ponte SistoThe Ponte Sisto, built to the order of Pope Sixtus IV by the architect Baccio Pontelli, and opened in 1475, was the only new bridge spanning the Tiber built between the fall of Rome and the nineteenth century.
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