as far as Rome.

The Tiber was once known for its floods -- the Campus Martius is a flood plain and would regularly flood to a depth of 2 m. There were also numerous major floods; for example, on 15 September 1557 the river flooded to a height of 62 ft above sea level, over 1,000 people died. The river is now confined between high stone embankments, which were begun in 1876. Within the city, the riverbanks are lined by boulevards known as lungoteveri, streets "along