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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 . It was completed in 187 BC. The Via Aemilia connected at Rimini with the Via Flaminia, which had been completed 33 years earlier, to Rome.
In 1853, Pope Pius IX had the remnants of the bridge connected to the mainland via an iron footbridge, but the heavy metal weakened the structural integrity of the stone. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] The remaining half was demolished in 1887 to make room for the Ponte Palatino , leaving behind only one arch that remains to this day.
Ariminum (modern Rimini) was founded as an ancient Roman colonia in 268 BC, when the Roman Senate sent 6,000 settlers to the bank of the river Ariminus (). [27] Construction of the Ponte di Tiberio started during the reign of Roman emperor Augustus in 14 AD and finished under his successor, Augustus' adoptive son Tiberius, in 21 AD.
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.
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.
Emilia takes its name from the Via Aemilia, a Roman road constructed by the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in 187 BCE to connect Rimini with Piacenza.The name was transferred to the district (which formed the eighth Augustan region of Italy) as early as the time of Martial, in popular usage.
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