A week for water: 2 Rome

A view of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican with the River Tiber, probably taken from the Ponte Sant'Angelo.  The Tiber is one of the longest rivers in Italy.  According to legend, Romulus and Remus, the twins who founded Rome, were left by the river to die before they were rescued and reared by a she-wolf.

I bought this card for myself when I was visiting Rome in February 2009, just over a year after floods threatened the city.  Although in 1870 high embankments, rather like the ones in Paris, had been built along the river to protect the centre of Rome, other areas were vulnerable.  The historic Ponte Milvio, the bridge where couples leave locked padlocks (Locks of Love), had to be sealed off.