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Ponte Apollosa
Ponte Apollosa (Ponte dei Molini) is a Roman three-arched Via Appia bridge at Taverna di Apollosa near Benevento, Italy, crossing the torrente Corvo; about 26 m long, possibly Severan-restored in 198 CE, WWII-destroyed, closed for stability in 2026.
Ponte Barucelli
Ponte Barucelli, or Ponte Diruto, twin parallel Roman aqueduct bridges 8 m apart at Gallicano nel Lazio near Rome, carrying the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus (built 38–52 AD) over the fosso dell'Acqua Nera; restored 2012–2015.
Ponte Calamone
Ponte Calamone, also called Calamone Roman Bridge, is an Augustan-era (1st century BC) Roman bridge on the Via Flaminia near Narni, Umbria, crossing the Calamone creek; a two-arch opus quadratum bridge of which one arch, the central pier, and retaining walls survive after WWII brick restoration.
Ponte Cardona
Ponte Cardona, at Narni, Umbria, is the fourth and last Roman bridge of the Formina aqueduct, a single-arch travertine aqueduct bridge over the fosso dei Collari, distinct from Spanish and Welsh namesakes.
Ponte Ceccara
Ponte Ceccara (ponte di Terra, pons Cicala), a Republican Roman single-arch tufel bridge on the fosso di Passerano carrying the Via Praenestina at Zagarolo near Rome, late 2nd to early 1st century BC, later restored.
Ponte del Toro
Ponte del Toro, at Papigno near Terni, Umbria: a Roman-age (1st century BC to 1st century AD) hydraulic drainage channel, not a road bridge, carrying a Velino emissary canal near the Marmore Falls; found in 1819 by Giuseppe Riccardi. Distinct from the Puente Mayor de Toro in Zamora, Spain.
Ponte dell'Abbadia
Ponte dell'Abbadia, also Ponte della Badia, Ponte del Diavolo, or Ponte dell'Arcobaleno, is a stratified Etruscan-Roman-medieval arch bridge over the Fiora at Vulci, Viterbo, with a 20 m main span, damaged by 2012 floods and restored by 2023.
Ponte della Maddalena
Ponte della Maddalena, also called Ponte del Diavolo (Devil's Bridge), is an 11th-century stone arch bridge over the Serchio river at Borgo a Mozzano, Lucca, Tuscany, with a 38 m main arch and three smaller asymmetric arches.
Ponte della Rocca, Blera
Ponte della Rocca, Blera: single-arch Roman tuff bridge (about 7.5 m high) on the Via Clodia over the Rio Canale near Blera, Viterbo; dated 2nd century BC, built partly with stone from the Pian del Vescovo Etruscan necropolis.
Ponte di Augusto
Ponte di Augusto (Bridge of Augustus), Roman arch bridge of about 27 BC near Narni, Umbria, carrying the Via Flaminia over the Nera; about 160-180 m long with four arches, of which one survives, built of travertine ashlar around cast lime concrete.
Ponte di Pietra
Ponte di Pietra (Stone Bridge) names several Italian structures: the Roman bridge of Verona over the Adige, Turin's Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I, a Roman bridge in Aosta, a Gravettian flint workshop at Arcevia, and medieval bridge remains at Ponte, Campania.
Ponte di Pioraco
Ponte di Pioraco, or Ponte Marmone, a stone bridge over the Potenza at Pioraco, Macerata, Marche; traditionally a Roman bridge of the Augustan age on a via Flaminia branch, though a regional catalog dates it to the 13th-14th centuries.
Ponte di Pogi
Ponte di Pogi (Pogi Bridge) is a five-arch humpback stone bridge over the Ambra at Pogi, Bucine, Arezzo, Tuscany; a medieval bridge on Roman via Cassia piers, restored in 2012, walkable only on foot.
Ponte di Quintodecimo
Ponte di Quintodecimo: 1622–1630 masonry bridge over the Tronto at Quintodecimo, Acquasanta Terme (AP), Marche, on the Via Salaria; 17.10 m arch, damaged in the 2016–2017 earthquakes, repair funded at 1.1 million euros.
Ponte di Traiano at Tor Tre Ponti
Ponte di Traiano (Trajan's Bridge) at Tor Tre Ponti is a Roman bridge on the Via Appia near Latina, Italy, built under Nerva and Trajan around AD 97.
Ponte di Vallerano
Ponte di Vallerano: Roman bridge in Rome's Tor di Valle area, also called Ponte romano della via Ostiense, carrying the ancient via Ostiensis over the fosso di Vallerano, a left-bank Tiber tributary; three-arched, dated 2nd century BC by Italian sources, hidden beneath the via del Mare and visible only from a cycle path.
Ponte Ezzu
Ponte Ezzu (Pont'Ezzu, "old bridge") names two Roman-founded medieval bridges in Sardinia: a six-arch, 88 m bridge on the Riu Mannu near Ozieri and a three-arch, 35 m Tirso bridge near Illorai.
Ponte Fabio Massimo
Ponte Fabio Massimo, or Ponte del Diavolo, is an ancient Samnite and Roman bridge over the Titerno river at Faicchio, Benevento, Campania: 12 m long, 13 m high, three asymmetrical arches, linked by legend to Fabius Maximus and Hannibal, restored in 2008.
Ponte Fonnaia
Ponte Fonnaia is a Roman bridge near Massa Martana in Umbria, Italy, that carried the western branch of the Via Flaminia over a tributary of the Naia river.
Ponte Grosso
Ponte Grosso, two Roman Augustan-era stone bridges on the old Via Flaminia near Cantiano, Marche, Italy, over the Fosso della Scheggia and the Burano; also a name of an Emilia-Romagna geological formation and a Parma Apennines bridge.
Ponte Ladrone
Ponte Ladrone names two Roman bridges: a Trajanic Via Traiana bridge-viaduct over the Ferrara ditch at Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte (Benevento), and an 11-arch 174 BC bridge on the Via Ostiensis at Acilia, buried in 1982.
Ponte Loreto
Ponte Loreto is a Roman bridge at Lanuvio, Lazio, on the ancient Via Astura road. Also called the Lanuvio Roman bridge, it has one semicircular peperino arch in opus quadrata, dated 2nd-1st century BC, and is misaligned with its road.
Ponte Lucano Roman Bridge
Ponte Lucano (Pons Lucanus), Roman bridge on the Via Tiburtina over the Aniene at Tivoli, 24 km from Rome; five travertine arches, cut by Totila, restored by Narses, beside the Mausoleum of the Plautii.
Ponte Lupo
Ponte Lupo, Roman aqueduct bridge near Gallicano nel Lazio east of Rome, built 144 BC for the Aqua Marcia; later the Anio Novus and Aqua Claudia met there. Two surviving cut-stone arches, about 27-30 m tall, under restoration.
Ponte Manlio
Ponte Manlio, also Ponte Mallio, a Roman arched stone bridge on the Via Flaminia over the Bosso torrent near Cagli, Marche, Italy; a single 11.66 m dry-laid breccia arch of Republican date with imperial restorations, named from a misread false inscription.
Ponte Milvio
Ponte Milvio, or Pons Mulvius, is an ancient Roman bridge over the Tiber in northern Rome, site of Constantine's decisive victory over Maxentius in 312 AD.
Ponte Morandi
Ponte Morandi, also known as the Morandi Bridge or Viadotto Polcevera, was a cable-stayed highway viaduct in Genoa, Italy, opened in 1967 and designed by Riccardo Morandi.
Ponte Morandi collapse
The Ponte Morandi (Polcevera Viaduct) collapse: partial failure of Riccardo Morandi's 1967 concrete cable-stayed bridge in Genoa on 14 August 2018, killing 43; corrosion of a concrete-encased stay at pylon 9, later convictions of 32 defendants.
Ponte Navea
Ponte Navea (Ponte de Navea) is a medieval single pointed-arch stone bridge over the Navea river between San Xoán de Río and A Pobra de Trives, Ourense, Galicia, built on Roman remains of the Via Nova (Via XVIII), declared Ben de Interés Cultural in 1991.
Ponte Nepesino
Ponte Nepesino is a Roman bridge of tufa construction near Nepi, in Viterbo, Italy, and the name of the surrounding site, which includes a fortified settlement and a necropolis.