The starting point of the road was Porta Fontinalis, a gate in the Servian city walls near present-day Piazza Venezia. In its first miles Via Flaminia cut through the plain between the Tiber and the eastern hills in a straight line.
The starting point of the road was Porta Fontinalis, a gate within the Servian city walls near modern-day Piazza Venezia. The first part of Via Flaminia followed a straight path across a plain that lay between the Tiber River and the eastern hills.