[citation needed] Roman generals awarded a triumph traditionally proceeded from the Campus Martius to the Capitoline along this road.

[4] The 1828 book A Tour in Italy and Sicily noted that Via Trionfale was "only eight feet wide and completely arched over with trees" around that time period.

[2] The book also noted that the road was "paved with stones two or three feet in diameter, irregular, yet closely fitted together, and so deep set in the ground as to now be in perfect order after the lapse of so many centuries.

In September 2010, the doubling of the carriageway, two lanes in each direction, was completed between the northern entrance of the Agostino Gemelli polyclinic and the Forte Trionfale.

On January 23, 2007, the ramps of the Via Trionfale junction were inaugurated with the Grande Raccordo Anulare (in the Ottavia area).