I have yet to translate the image of a column into a monument to travelers, but the placing of this “Sculpture in the City” couldn’t be more obvious.

Sitting at the base of the ancient Roman road (Via Flaminia Vecchia) on its way out of town, La Colonna del Viaggiatore holds the pride of a perfect placement.

(I have yet to discover who decided, or how, to position new works of art in old urban spaces.  But for a rundown on the ancient Via Flaminia, check here.

[By the by, if you click on the map, you will discover a branch in the road, where the second of the two, a more circuitous route, passed through Spoletium.])