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===Arch of Trajan===
[[File:Traiano AN 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|Arch of Trajan]]
The [[Arch of Trajan (Ancona)|Arch of Trajan]] is a marble structure {{convert|18|m|abbr=off}} high, but only {{convert|3|m|abbr=off}} wide, standing on a high platform approached by a wide flight of steps, and is one of the finest surviving Roman monuments in the [[Marche]]s. It was built in the year 114/115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall and is named in honour of [[Trajan]], the emperor who made the harbour. Most of its original bronze ornaments have disappeared. The archway is flanked by pairs of fluted [[Corinthian column]]s on pedestals. A pediment bears inscriptions. The format is that of the [[Arch of Titus]] in Rome, but made taller, so that the bronze figures surmounting it, of Trajan, his wife [[Pompeia Plotina|Plotina]] and sister Marciana, would figure as a landmark for ships approaching Rome's greatest Adriatic port.