A14 | Autostrada Adriatica | MAROTTA MONDOLFO - RIMINI SUD

The A14 motorway, also known as the Bologna-Taranto or Adriatic Motorway, connects Bologna to Taranto, crossing the Italian peninsula, along long stretches of the Adriatic Sea and passing through Ancona, Pescara, and Bari. At 743.4 km long, it is entirely managed by Autostrade per l'Italia. It is the second longest Italian motorway and also the second main meridian axis of the Italian motorway network after the A1. History The current A14 Bologna-Taranto motorway originates from three separate motorway sections: the Bologna-Canosa Adriatic Motorway, the Canosa-Bari section of the Naples-Bari motorway, and the Bari-Taranto section of the unfinished Bari-Taranto-Sibari Ionian motorway. The Bologna-Canosa section Following Law 729 of 1961 on the Plan for New Road and Motorway Construction, the first section of the A14 to be built was the one from Bologna to the province of Forlì (on July 7, 1966, the then Minister of Public Works Giacomo Mancini cut the tricolor ribbon in San Lazzaro di Savena), while the section of the Bologna Ring Road was inaugurated in 1967; this section absorbed an old connecting road between the A1 and the SS 9, called SS 9 racc, which opened in late 1959 along with the Bologna section of the Autostrada del Sole. On July 7, 1966, the section from Bologna via Massarenti (now Castenaso) to Cesena was opened, followed on August 13 by the next section from Cesena to Rimini Sud. On May 15, 1968, the short section from Rimini South to Riccione was opened to traffic, followed on July 22 by the section from Riccione to Cattolica[9] and on November 16 by the section from Cattolica to Pesaro. The section from Pesaro to Fano was inaugurated on April 19, 1969, in the presence of the Minister of State Holdings, Arnaldo Forlani. The motorway today The motorway route consists primarily of a two-lane layout in each direction, with a third lane in the following sections: A1 connection - Porto Sant'Elpidio, for 271 km; the section also includes a third dynamic lane in the urban section of Bologna for approximately 14 km from Bologna Borgo Panigale to Bologna S. Lazzaro; Taranto Barriera Nord - km 729, for approximately 6 km. The urban stretch of Bologna, where the third dynamic lane is active, near the junction with the A13 Bologna-Padova motorway and junction 6 of the Bologna-RA1 ring road, which runs parallel to the motorway. Its route is mostly straight, with no tunnels and few viaducts, with wide-radius curves in the Puglia, Molise, and Emilia sections. Meanwhile, in the Marche and Abruzzo sections, it features continuous ups and downs and curves, generally wide-radius, with occasional road tunnels and numerous viaducts. Construction of the fourth lane is underway between Bologna S. Lazzaro and the junction with the A14dir motorway. The Rimini Sud exit allows access to the Republic of San Marino via the San Marino State Road 72, which, after crossing the border of the small republic, becomes the San Marino Superstrada.