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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

Standing between the Colosseum and the Forum, the Arch of Constantine is the largest surviving triumphal arch in Rome and one of the finest in the Roman world. Erected by the Senate in 315 AD to mark the tenth anniversary of Constantine accession and his victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge three years earlier, the arch is more than twenty metres high and almost twenty-six metres wide. The triple-arched form, with a large central bay flanked by two smaller ones, was a Roman standard, bu...