Built in
the Republican period so that the VIA TIBURTINA could pass the ANIENE RIVER
It was made
in opus quadratum of travertine marble and tuff stone with two large
arches, of which remains only part of the eastern span and the base of the
pillar of the central one
Its
original structure probably consisted of three arches with the central one
larger
It was
known as Mammolo since 1338 perhaps for having been attributed to Giulia
Mammea, the mother of Septimius Severus (193/211), or more likely for a
language contraction from marmoreus being the original in travertine
It was
destroyed by the French in 1849
The
NEW MAMMOLO BRIDGE further north was rebuilt in the years 1853/57 for Pius IX
Mastai-Ferretti (1846/78) and restored in 1871
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