Ile St. Louis is my favorite part of Paris, so I was looking forward to visiting its Roman equivalent, Tiber Island. But beyond their both being islands, they don't have much in common. Tiber Island looks dramatic in the aerial photo, and is connected to the river banks by two pedestrian bridges, the oldest of Rome's many bridges. In Ancient Rome, there was a temple to Aesculapius, the Roman god of healing, and naturally attracted the city's sick in search of a cure. Over the centuries this was formalized into a hospital, which is flourishing today. It's doing so well that it now occupies the entire island, and its undoubtedly interesting medieval parts are buried in a sea of modern medical buildings. Needless to say the quaint streets of Ile St. Louis are more captivating than Tiber Island's waiting rooms and maternity wards.