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Milvian Bridge

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Milvian Bridge or Mulvian Bridge, Latin Pons Milvius or Pons Mulvius. It was built by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus in 109 B.C. over the Tiber near Rome as part of the Flaminian Way Flaminian Way , one of the principal Roman roads, the greatest artery from Rome to Cisalpine Gaul. Construction was begun (220 B.C.) by Caius Flaminius. The road ran N from Rome to Narnia (modern Narni), to Mevania (Bevagna), NE to Nuceria (Nocera Umbria), thence N
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. By defeating Maxentius here in A.D. 312, Constantine I became the unchallenged ruler of the West. It was here that Constantine saw the cross in the sky.


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After Constantine's subsequent victory in the battle of Milvian Bridge, he became a strong supporter of the Christian church.
In 2006, Federico Moccia, published Ho Voglia di Te (I Want You), a story of passionate romance in which two young Romans swear eternal love by fastening a padlock to a lamppost on the Milvian bridge before casting the key into the Tiber.
 
 
 
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