Rome upside down .......... seen from the Tiber

Rome is closely linked to the Tiber, the river was important for trade and for its nature of connection with the port area, overlooking the Tyrrhenian.The Latins called this river Tiberis, from which Tiber derives, but probably the oldest name is Rumon, from "ruminant", a fact that highlights and refers to the erosion of the river banks already noted in ancient times. Another expression with which the Romans indicated the Tiber is "Albula" or "Biondo Flavio" due to the shade of the sand. A curiosity worth dwelling on is that according to Servius, a Latin author who probably lived during the fifth century BC, the city of Rome owes its name to the Tiber. Rumen or Rumon, the terms with which the Latins indicated the river, share a root similar to Rome, and more precisely to the verb Ruo, or “I flow”. Its bond is already described in the first scene of the legend of its foundation, when Romulus and Remus were abandoned on its shores, and the cult of the Deus Tiberinus, whose temple was located on the characteristic Tiber Island, was also dedicated to it. The Tiber also played a fundamental role in the history of imperial Rome. Beyond the myth, the river was used since the origins of the city and the inhabitants immediately took care to initiate a series of interventions to exploit it in the best possible way. the need to control the floods led to the design of the "walls", whose construction, between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, affected the banks of the central urban stretch, creating the banks as we know them today. Despite the "physical" separation between the Romans and the Tiber, after more than two thousand years of practically living in symbiosis, the link between the river and the city has never been broken. Through this tour we intend to give an unprecedented vision of Rome; an upside-down vision that lets us discover the city and its monuments by following the waterway from which the city came to life.