The so-called Ponte della Rocca spans a deep ravine on the ancient Via Clodia, just outside Blera. It stands hard by the Necropolis of San Giovenale and Terrone, a landscape of tufa cliffs pitted with Etruscan tombs. Some sources suggest an original date in the third or second centuries BCE, placing it in the later Etruscan period, when Roman influence was already strong in this part of Italy. The bridge itself is a robust, single-arched structure in local stone, its roadway now grassed over and quiet. It was part of a secondary Roman road that linked the Via Cassia to the coast, a route more practical than grand. Today it feels almost incidental, a forgotten piece of infrastructure half-lost among the gorges and necropolises. To stand on it is to sense the weight of an old journey, one that has long since ceased to be urgent.
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