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Arco dei Farnesi

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks. 

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Over the Via Giulia in Rome lies the Arco dei Farnesi (The Farnese Arch). This arch was originally part of a design by Michelangelo, commissioned by Pope Paul III, to create a bridge that connected Palazzo Farnese with the Villa Farnesina in Trastevere over the Tiber River.

This would have been a private bridge reserved for the Farnese Family, which Pope Paul III was a member. Unfortunately, after Michelangelo’s death, the bridge was never completed. Today this magnificent arch covered in vines along the Via Giulia can be viewed while on a stroll through the streets of Rome. 

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