Via Nomentana

{{Short description|Historical Italian road}}

File:Ponte Nomentano, Rome, Italy. Pic 01.jpg, one of the bridges on the Via Nomentana, during the 2008 flood]]

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The Via Nomentana was an ancient Roman road in Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of {{convert|23|km|mi|abbr=on}}. It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about {{convert|13|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum.{{cn|date=January 2025}} It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Nomentana, Via|volume=19|page=735|first=Thomas|last=Ashby|authorlink=Thomas Ashby (archaeologist)}} Ashby cites his own contribution to Papers of British School at Rome, iii. 38 sqq.

The road started at the Porta Collina in the Servian Walls until the third century, when emperor Aurelian built the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls.