Reimagining the Tiber: towards a Nature-Positive Future for Rome

“Il Tevere e la Città” — the international conference and press briefing on the Strategic and Operational Plan for the Tiber River, approved last July by the Municipality of Rome — stood at the heart of the seventh edition of Tevere Day.

Together with Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and Councillors Maurizio Veloccia and Sabrina Alfonsi, this day-long event brought together architects, engineers, and experts to share insights and strategies for the valorization and revitalization of the river — the lifeblood of the Eternal City.

Alongside Matteo Pedaso and Andrea Bulloni, Andreas Kipar highlighted LAND’s Nature-Positive approach, expressed through various landscape projects aimed at the sustainable transformation of the capital, following the virtuous example of Turin’s Parco del Valentino and its dialogue with the Po River.

“We have the common responsibility to look after Nature,” said Andreas Kipar. “Investing in Natural Capital drives European regional growth, and our vision considers Landscape as a very driver of change, enabling the transition from net-zero to a Nature-Positive future. For millennia, the Tiber has told Rome’s story. Now, it must become a green-blue infrastructure driving urban regeneration — a shared space of Nature, culture, and community life.”

From Vienna’s Donaukanal to Paris’s soon-to-be swimmable Seine, to BUGA29’s commitment to a vision linking the Rhine and the Po into a network of productive landscapes — Nature, culture, and social life come together to generate new relationships, development, and quality of life along Europe’s rivers.

LAND’s work in Rome develops through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together diverse professionals under the supervision of the Soprintendenza.

Teverever and TevereSud are two projects destined to redefine the relationship between the Tiber River and the city — rediscovering a millennia-old symbiosis and overcoming the negative perception of a river isolated from the urban fabric, hidden behind the “muraglioni.”

Thanks to new kilometres of linear parks and a holistic approach centred on permeability, accessibility, and the valorization of archaeological sites, the riverfront once again flows through the urban fabric — shaping public spaces for meeting and sharing, preventing floods through renewed climate resilience, and enhancing the city’s monuments.

The landscapes of the Tiber — I Fori, Le Terrazze, Le Tracce della Roma Antica, and sites of industrial archaeology — intertwine within a urban regeneration process that reimagines the river as an infrastructure of water, Nature, and Culture.