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Rimini: The End of the Via Flaminia

[image ALT: An inscribed statue base (it looks Roman) in the middle of a small flower market at the edge of a large empty square.]

This inscription on the Piazza Tre Martiri, successor to the Roman Forum,
marks the spot where Julius Caesar is said to have harangued his troops after crossing the Rubicon.

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The Via Flaminia enters town thru the Arco di Augusto — which was much more Roman as recently as 1937.

[image ALT: Close-up of three lines of an inscription, reading: 'C. Caesar dict. Rubicone']

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The end of the Flaminia can be placed in the Forum which, until World War II, was called the Piazza Giulio Cesare, but is now the Piazza dei 3 Martiri in memory of three Italian patriots hanged by the Germans as they retreated in 1944. Of ancient Rome not a trace, excepting this inscription.

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