Road station
Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia is written on the map at the start of Rome's great road to the north, just after the Milvian Bridge, which the map miscopies as the bridge of Julius. The censor Gaius Flaminius built the road in 220 BC, through Narni and Nocera over the Apennines to Rimini on the Adriatic, and it became the main route into the Po valley; even travellers bound for Gaul and Spain preferred it to the coast road. Augustus had it repaired and its great bridge at Narni built, and Vespasian cut a tunnel for it through the mountains. Near Rome, tombs lined it on both sides.