Milvian Bridge
You’ve got a lot riding on this crossing of the Tiber—because the Milvian Bridge, or Ponte Milvio (also Ponte Molle), was built to be both strategic and hard to disrupt. Back in 206 BC, consul Gaius Claudius Nero ordered a bridge here after defeating the Carthaginians at the Battle of the Metaurus. Then in 109 BC, censor Marcus Aemilius Scaurus replaced it with a stone bridge, demolishing the earlier one in the same spot. If you’re into political drama, 63 BC matters: letters from the Catiline conspiracy were intercepted here, and Cicero read them to the Senate the next day. And in AD 312, everything concentrates around one outcome—Constantine I defeated Maxentius between this bridge and Saxa Rubra, in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, which helped usher in Constantine’s imperial rule. …
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