Description
The name of the town derives without doubt from the Latin “Tripontium”, the place with “three bridges”, presumably one for each of the rivers, but no Roman bridge exists today.
Triponzo remains famous amongst epigraphists for a Roman inscription (CIL IX.4541 = ILLRP 1275a) carved into the bare rock on the external wall of the road tunnel on the main road 209 a few hundred metres to the west of the town, that suggests the construction of the Roman road from Spoletium to Nursia by order of the Roman Senate.
Piazza Garibaldi 1
