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The foundations of a three-arched-Roman bridge can still be seen where the road crossed an ancient branch of the Piave. Two piers and a number of three-arched sandstone bridgeheads that crossed a now extinct tract Canalat or Old Piavon River can be seen south of Ceggia. Further east the road crossed the River Livenza at Santa Anastasia where ...
III, no. 1: 123–132. Abstract: Romans, the first real road designers, designed and constructed the first organized road system in Europe. This system was in use for almost 2,000 years with some parts still in use as secondary roads. Via Egnatia, the first highway to cross the Balkan Peninsula, was the first road built by Romans outside Italy.
Via Regina (Latin: Antica Strada Regina) is the old Roman road which ran from Cremona to Milan. It was based on an earlier trade route. the total length of the road was about 75 kilometres (47 mi) [1] Associated with it was the road along the western shore of Lake Como across the Milanese plain, that linked up with Valchiavenna. [2]
A description of a part of the road appears in the British survey: "The Roman road adjacent to 'Kh. Phasaelis' has been preserved in perfect condition, it includes three rows of stones, the average area of which is a square foot, forming the two extreme rows and the backbone of the road" – hence the width of the road was 18 feet – 7 meters ...
Schematic map of the Via Aemilia through the Roman Empire's Regio VIII Aemilia Route of Via Aemilia (in light brown, between Placentia and Ariminum). The Via Aemilia (Italian: Via Emilia, English: Aemilian Way) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from Ariminum (), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia on the River Padus ().
The Via Domitia was the first Roman road built in Gaul, to link Italy and Hispania through Gallia Narbonensis, across what is now Southern France.The route that the Romans regularised and paved was ancient when they set out to survey it, and traces the mythic route travelled by Heracles.
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An ancient salt road passed to the mouths of the Rhône, keeping to the lower slopes of the hills to avoid the river's sometimes swampy flood plain.Under the impetus of Augustus, Agrippa paved a route that lay closer to the river, passing through the important Roman cities of Arles, Avignon, Orange, Montélimar, Valence, Vienne, interspersed with relay stations (mutationes) where a change of ...