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Curva Cesena

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Curva Cesena, the modern town of Cesena in Italy, lay on the Via Aemilia beside the Savio river. The added word Curva, meaning the bend, may point to the turn or junction of the road towards Ravenna. It appears only from around AD 300, in a Roman register of routes and on one of the silver cups from Vicarello engraved with road stations. The map gives the town's pair of towers unusual round roofs, a detail that seems to come from the copyist's hand rather than from Roman art. The late Roman writer Sidonius Apollinaris mocked the place as an oven rather than a town.

Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.

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