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The bridge's second repair occurred in 1767 to maintain the bridge its eleven modern and fifteen Roman arches. On 22 July 1812, during the Peninsular War against the Napoleonic French, there was a battle south of the city (in the hills of Arapil Chico and Arapil Grande ) called the Battle of Salamanca , known in Spanish as the Battle of the ...
The Circus Maximus (Latin for "largest circus"; Italian: Circo Massimo) is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue in Rome, Italy.In the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.
Floorplan of Circus Maximus. This design is typical of Roman circuses. The performance space of the Roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed ...
Tallest Roman road bridge Ponte di Agosta Aniene: Agosta: 8 km S of Arsoli: Italy, Rome & vicinity 7 × S S Ponte di Cassino Valle del Rapido: Cassino: About 3 km N: Italy, Southern 1 × S S Ponte di Caudino Lorenzino: Caudino: Near Arcevia: Italy, Central 8 m S Ponte di Cecco: Castellano Ascoli Piceno: E entrance to city 42° 51′ 9.2″ N ...
The starting gates are to the left, and a conjectured start-line cuts across the track, to the right of the nearest meta. The Romans probably borrowed chariot technology and racing track design from the Etruscans, who in turn had borrowed them from the Greeks. Rome's public entertainments were also influenced directly by Greek examples.
Built in 142 BC, the Pons Aemilius, later named Ponte Rotto (broken bridge), is the oldest Roman stone bridge in Rome, with only one surviving arch and pier. However, evidence suggests only the abutment is original to the 2nd century BC while the arch and pier perhaps date to a reconstruction during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). [ 39 ]
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The first Hippodrome was built when the city was called Byzantium, and was a provincial town of moderate importance. In AD 203 the Emperor Septimius Severus rebuilt the city and expanded its walls , endowing it with a hippodrome, an arena for chariot races and other entertainment.