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FLAMINIA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 476 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLAMINIA, VIA , an See also:ancient high road of See also:Italy, constructed by C. See also:Flaminius during his censorship (220 B.C.). It led from See also:Rome to See also:Ariminum, and was the most important route to the See also:north. We hear of frequent improvements being made in it during the imperial See also:period. See also:Augustus, when he instituted a See also:general restoration of the roads of Italy, which he assigned for the purpose among various senators, reserved the Flaminia for himself, and rebuilt all the See also:bridges except the Pons Mulvius, by which it crosses the See also:Tiber, 2 M. N. of Rome (built by M. See also:Scaurus in 109 B.c.), and an unknown Pons Minucius. Triumphal See also:arches were erected in his See also:honour on the former See also:bridge and at Ariminum, the latter of which is still preserved. See also:Vespasian constructed a new See also:tunnel through the pass of Intercisa, See also:modern Furlo, in A.D. 77 (see CALES), and See also:Trajan, as See also:inscriptions show, repaired several bridges along the road. The Via Flaminia runs due N. from Rome, considerable remains of its See also:pavement being extant in the modern high road, passing slightly E. of the site of the See also:Etruscan See also:Falerii, through Ocriculi and Narnia. Here it crossed the Nar by a splendid four-arched bridge to which See also:Martial alludes (Epigr. vii.

93, 8), one See also:

arch of which and all the piers are still See also:standing; and went on, followed at first by the modern road to Sangemini which passes over two finely preserved ancient bridges, past See also:Carsulae to See also:Mevania, and thence to See also:Forum Flaminii. Later on a more circuitous route from Narnia to Forum Flaminii was adopted, passing by Interamna, Spoletium and Fulginium (from which a See also:branch diverged to Perusia), and increasing the distance by 12 M. The road thence went on to Nuceria (whence a branch road ran to Septempeda and thence either to See also:Ancona or to Tolentinum and Urbs See also:Salvia) and Helvillum, and then crossed the See also:main See also:ridge of the See also:Apennines, a See also:temple of See also:Jupiter Apenninus standing at the See also:summit of the pass. Thence it descended to Cales (where it turned N.E.), and through the pass of Intercisa to Forum Sempronii (See also:Fossombrone) and Forum Fortunae, where it reached the See also:coast of the Adriatic. Thence it ran N.W. through See also:Pisaurum to Ariminum. The See also:total distance from Rome was 210 M. by the older road and 222 by the newer. The roadgave its name to a juridical See also:district of Italy from the 2nd See also:century A.D. onwards, the former territory of the See also:Senones, which was at first associated with See also:Umbria (with which indeed under Augustus it had formed the See also:sixth region of Italy), but which after See also:Constantine was always administered with See also:Picenum. (T.

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