Ponte Milvio
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bridge across Rome's Tiber river
Key facts
- Crosses
- Tiber
- Locale
- Rome , Italy
- Other name s
- Milvian Bridge, Mulvian Bridge, Pons Mulvius , Ponte Molle
- Design
- Arch bridge
- Material
- Stone, brick
- Total length
- 136 m
- Width
- 8.75 m
- Longest span
- 18.55 m
- Construction end
- 109 BC (stone bridge)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Roma Capitale
- Material used
- stone
- Image
- Ponte Milvio HD.jpg
- Length
- 136
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- Commons category
- Ponte Milvio
- crosses
- Tiber
- number of spans
- 6
- Commons gallery
- Ponte Milvio
- carries thoroughfare
- Via Flaminia
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- next crossing upstream
- Ponte Flaminio (Rome)
- next crossing downstream
- Ponte Duca d'Aosta
- IIIF manifest URL
- gn.biblhertz.it/fotothek/api/iiif/3/werk/obj08048359/manifest
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Milvian (or Mulvian) Bridge (Italian: Ponte Milvio or Ponte Molle; Latin: Pons Milvius or Pons Mulvius) is a bridge over the Tiber in northern Rome, Italy. It was an economically and strategically important bridge in the era of the Roman Empire and was the site of the famous Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, which led to the imperial rule of Constantine.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ponte Milvio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.