The original settlement developed on hills that faced onto a ford beside the Tiber Island, the only natural ford of the river in this area.

Carrollsburg was completed in 1967 and developed as a companion piece to Tiber Island by the same architects.

Beyond the bridge you can just see the Aesculapium on Tiber Island.

His body had been at the Tiber Island in Rome since the 11th century.

His corpse was thrown into the Tiber and later found at Tiber Island.

The name derives from the racecourse located in the southern end of the Campus Martius, close to Tiber Island.

In reality, the hills of what was to become Rome probably attracted various tribes because nearby Tiber Island made it easy to cross the river.

His body then settled onto the bottom where dirt and silt accumulated around it and eventually formed Tiber Island.

In ancient times, before Christianity spread through Rome, Tiber Island was avoided because of the negative stories associated with it.

Tiber Island was once the location of an ancient temple to Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine and healing.