Roman consul and dictator, the one who laid the political foundations of the future Roman Empire
The episode linking our territory to Julius Caesar occurs in the first decades of the 1st century BC, when the Rubicon River formed the border between the Roman Republic and Cisalpine Gaul. South of the river the access of Roman militias was forbidden, but in 49 BC. Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon at the head of his troops, uttering the famous phrase “Alea iacta est” (“The die is cast”) and marching to Rome. Today, the meaning of the expression crossing the Rubicon is world-famous: that is, to make an irrevocable decision, to reach a point of no return, to make a choice from which there is no turning back.