Un esempio è la Via Emilia, che collega Piacenza a Rimini in Emilia-Romagna, che ha celebrato proprio lo scorso anno i 2200 anni dalla sua fondazione.Īll'apice dell'impero, la rete stradale romana copriva 400.000 chilometri (di cui 80.000 asfaltati), con 29 strade che partivano da Roma per collegarsi al resto dell'Italia (da qui l'espressione "tutte le strade portano a Roma") e molte altre che coprivano tutte le aree dell'impero, dalla Gran Bretagna alla Mesopotamia. Strade di 2000 anni esistono ancora oggi in Italia. ![]() I romani erano grandi costruttori di strade: costruivano strade prevalentemente lineari per ridurre al minimo le distanze, per ragioni militari, politiche e commerciali. Via Cassia - The Via Cassia was an important consular road that connected Rome to Florentia (Florence), later extended to connect with Via Aurelia via Lucca and Pistoia. Today, it connects Rome to France along the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ligurian Sea. Via Aurelia – The Via Aurelia was a consular road built in the mid-3rd century BC to connect Rome to Cerveteri, and later prolonged to reach the military colonies of Cosa and Pyrgi on the Tyrrhenian coast. The road's first bridge still exists, just outside Rimini. It was named after the Roman consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and passed through the major cities of the region, Forlì, Faenza, Bologna, Modena, Reggio and Parma, as it still does today: it is state road 9, still called Via Emilia, and follows the Roman route over much of its length. ![]() At Rimini, it connected with the Via Flaminia to Rome, which had been completed 33 years earlier. ![]() Via Emilia - The Via Aemilia ran from Ariminum (Rimini) on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia (Piacenza) on the river Padus (Po). Unlike all other consular roads, which took their name from the person responsible for their construction, the name Salaria derives from the function for which it was built: the transportation of salt. Via Salaria - The Via Salaria was a consular road that went from Rome to Porto d'Ascoli on the Adriatic Sea today, it is classified as ‘strada statale’ (state road) SS 4. Large stretches of the road, especially in the suburbs of Rome, are well preserved. Brindisi was at the time one of the most important ports in Italy, the connection to the trade routes for Greece and the East. Built between the late 4 th and early 3 rd century, it was nicknamed ‘ regina viarum’ (queen of roads) and was considered one of the greatest engineering works of the ancient world for the huge economic, military and cultural impact it had on Roman society. Via Appia – The Appian Way connected Rome with Brindisi ( Brundisium) in southern Italy. ![]() Here are five major Roman roads that still survive today. The streets were equipped with milestones, which indicated the distance in miles from the ‘golden milestone’, located in the Roman Forum, at the foot of the Capitol. One such example is the Via Emilia, which connects Piacenza to Rimini in Emilia-Romagna, and celebrated just last year 2200 years since its foundation.Īt the height of the Roman Empire, the Roman road network covered 400,000 kilometers (80,000 of which were paved), with 29 roads departing from Rome to connect to the rest of Italy (hence the expression ‘all roads lead to Rome’) and many others that covered all areas of the empire, from Britain to Mesopotamia. Roads that are as old as 2000 years still exist in Italy today. Romans were great road builders – they built mostly linear roads in order to minimize distances for military, political and trade reasons.
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