Via Flaminia Rally 2011 - Trialer

The Via Flaminia Rally - Pre War Edition

May 21 - 28, 2011

The Via Flaminia is a friendly rally which brings you to some of the most beautiful parts of Italy. As the antique Via Flaminia, the rally crosses the Apennines from Umbria to Marche. The rally tends also to cross large parts of Tuscany and the high mountains of the Abruzzen.

Being in central Italy, full attention is given to the wonderful way of life, the culture, the nature and above all the exponent of it all, the food.

The Via Flaminia is open to all cars build prior to December 31st 1974, preferably of Italian make. In order to give a small extra stimulus to the participants there is a classification.

Typically, the atmosphere is relaxed.

The 2005 and 2006 events both started in Verona, at the offloading platform of the car train. From there on the Via Flaminia went to the Gran Sasso, the highest point of the Apennines and back. The 2007 Tour started in Livorno and ended in Salerno in the south of Italy.
For 2008, 2009 and 2010 the Via Flaminia started at small car museums near Modena. In 2010, for the first time, the trip back was by truck (and airplane) from Pescara.


The Antique Via Flaminia
The construction of the Via Flaminia started under the censorship of C. Flaminius (220 B.C.). It led from Rome to Ariminum, and was the most important route to the north. Frequent improvements were made in it during the imperial period. Augustus, when he instituted a general restoration of the roads of Italy rebuilt all the bridges except the Pons Mulvius. Triumphal arches were erected in his honour; the one at Ariminum is still preserved. In 76 A.D. Vespasian constructed a new tunnel through the pass of Furlo, and Trajan, as inscriptions show, repaired several bridges along the road.

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