Via Flaminia

The Via Flaminia is a road that connects Rome since ancient times, with the Adriatic coast. It was created 220 BC and led originally to Ariminum ( Rimini). In her story changed several times the route. Today, it is classified as State Road 3 Via Flaminia and ends in Fano.

History

It was built by order of the censor Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC, during the imperial period renovated several times. Augustus, which assigned the streets Italy individual senators, the Via Flaminia reserved for himself and let all the bridges, with the exception of the Milvian Bridge ( Pons Mulvius ) with which they crossed the Tiber three kilometers north of Rome (and that of Marcus Aemilius older Scaurus from the year 109 BC dates ) and an unknown Pons Minucius, replace it. Triumphal arches were erected in his honor on the first bridge, and in Ariminum, where he remains today. Vespasian was in the year 77 a new tunnel through the Intercisa Pass ( Furlo ) establish and Trajan, as inscriptions show, renovate some bridges along the road.

In the Middle Ages it was known the Via Flaminia as Ravenna Road, as it led to the now more important city of Ravenna, but came with the end of the Exarchate of Ravenna and during the heyday of Lombardy disuse, was then restored in the Renaissance and remained until the Napoleonic era of military importance.

1946 hundreds of small bronze pieces were found near the junction of the Via Flaminia and Via Salaria Gallica that have been restored and have become known as the Golden bronzes of Cartoceto di Pergola.

Route

The Via Flaminia originally began at the Porta Fontinalis in the Servian Wall. However, the miles counting began on Milliarium Aureum. Today the kilometer from the Piazza Venezia are counted. The road ran through the Field of Mars straight to the Milvian bridge. Since the construction of the Aurelian wall to 275 AD, the Via Flaminia left by the Porta Flaminia, the later Porta del Popolo the city. The portion of the road within the city walls was in the Middle Ages the name Via Lata ( Broad Street ). Today, this stretch is called Via del Corso.

The Via Flaminia went through the area of the subject shortly before its construction Faliscans without their destroyed capital Falerii touch. After the 10th century AD, it was, however, diverted to the scale at the point of Falerii Veteres Civita Castellana. At the height of today's Gallese she crossed with another bridge over the Tiber. This bridge, probably the Pons Minucius is no longer maintained. Until the 16th century, Pope Sixtus V. build a new bridge further south at Borghetto, the Ponte Felice, through which the Via Flaminia leads today.

Cross the Tiber she performs Otricoli ( Ocriculi ) and Narni ( Narnia ). Here they crossed the river Nera with a great vierbögigen bridge, called the Ponte d' Augusto, the in Martial ( Epigr. vii. 93, 8) is mentioned and of which a sheet is still preserved. Next she goes the modern road to San Gemini with two well-preserved old bridges along, after Carsulae and Mevania ( Bevagna) until after Flaminii forum. Later, another stretch of Narnia was chosen by Flaminii forum that crosses Interamna (Terni ), Spoletium ( Spoleto ) and Fulginium ( Foligno ) and leading off a junction for Perusia (Perugia ), a distance that the way to about 21 kilometers extended. The road now led by Nuceria ( Nocera Umbra ), where a turnoff to Septempeda and then either to Ancona or Tolentinum ( Tolentino ) and Urbs Salvia ( Urbisaglia ) went, and Helvillum, then crossed the main ridge of the Apennines, where a temple of Jupiter Apenninus stood at the pass. The road then went down to Cales ( Cagli ), turned to the northeast, and led through the Intercisa Pass to Forum Sempronii ( Fossombrone ) and Fanum Fortunae ( Fano ), where she reached the Adriatic coast. From here they proceeded northward over Pisaurum (Pesaro ) to Ariminum ( Rimini).

The length of the Via Flaminia is 283 kilometers. In ancient times, they counted 315 km ( 213 Roman miles ) on the older and 328 km (222 miles) on the recent route. The road was from the 2nd century an Italian administrative district its name, the earlier area senones which initially belonged to Umbria ( with which is Augustus the sixth region of Italy formed ) was then added to Picenum, and under Constantine I..