Via Nomentana the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls. Pope Pius IV decided to move the first stretch of the road and built the Porta Pia for this purpose. There are the remains of at least one Roman bridge along the road, which is the Ponte Nomentano. Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and
White wagtail it still bears its original name of "Motacilla alba". The Latin genus name originally meant "little mover", but certain medieval writers thought it meant "wag-tail", giving rise to a new Latin word "cilla" for "tail". The specific epithet "alba" is Latin for "white". Within the wagtail genus "Motacilla", the white wagtail's closest genetic relatives appear to be other black-and-white wagtails such as the Japanese wagtail, "Motacilla grandis", and the white-browed wagtail, "Motacilla madaraspatensis" (and possibly the Mekong wagtail, "Motacilla samveasnae", the phylogenetic position of which is mysterious), with which it appears to form a superspecies. However, mtDNA cytochrome "b" and