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The Bridge of Tiberius (Italian: Ponte di Tiberio), historically also the Bridge of Augustus (Ponte d'Augusto) or the Bridge of Saint Julian (Ponte di San Giuliano), [1] [2] [3] is a Roman bridge in Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.
The Roman Bridge of San Vito (Italian: Ponte romano di San Vito), also locally known as the Pontaccio (Romagnol: e Puntaz, lit. ' ugly bridge '), was a Roman bridge in San Vito, a frazione on the borders of Rimini, Santarcangelo di Romagna, and San Mauro Pascoli, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.
Rimini (/ ˈ r ɪ m ɪ n i / RIM-in-ee, Italian: ⓘ; Romagnol: Rémin or Rémne; Latin: Ariminum [3]) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.. Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley.
The arch was built in 27 BC, commissioned by the Roman Senate in honour of Augustus, who had become the first Roman emperor in the same year. It was built at the northern end of the Via Flaminia, [2] [3] a Roman road between Ariminum (modern Rimini) and Rome constructed in 220 BC by Gaius Flaminius, [3] [4] and at the start of Ariminum 's decumanus maximus (Corso d'Augusto). [11]
Rimini Emilia-Romagna [S 17] 19: Ponte Sant'Angelo ... Steel dual-box girder bridge, steel pylons: 2x3 highway lanes 2 railway lines Strait of Messina.
Schematic map of the Via Aemilia through the Roman Empire's Regio VIII Aemilia Route of Via Aemilia (in light brown, between Placentia and Ariminum). The Via Aemilia (Italian: Via Emilia, English: Aemilian Way) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from Ariminum (), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia on the River Padus ().
San Vito lies on the Via Aemilia, [6] an ancient Roman road between Ariminum (modern Rimini) and Placentia that dates to Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in 187 BC. [7] The section of the Via Aemilia between Savignano sul Rubicone and Santa Giustina, now known as the Via Emilia Vecchia, [6] replaced an earlier routing of the road through Santarcangelo di Romagna.
A timber bridge is a structure composed wholly out of wood, while a stone pillar bridge features a wooden superstructure resting on stone pillars. Strictly speaking, many bridges of the second type should be rather called " concrete pillar bridges", as the Romans preferably used opus caementicium for constructing their bridge piers (stone was ...