Livy mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on them, at times long before the first p… 展开

The Laws of the Twelve Tables, dated to about 450 BC, required that any public road (Latin via) be 8 Roman feet (perhaps about 2.37 m) wide where straight and twice that width where curved. These were probably the minimum wid… 展开

Roman roads varied from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments o… 展开

The public road system of the Romans was thoroughly military in its aims and spirit. It was designed to unite and consolidate the conquests of the Roman people, whether within or without the limits of Italy proper. A legion on … 展开

There are many examples of roads that still follow the route of Roman roads.
Major roads
• Via Aemilia, from Rimini (Ariminum) to Placentia
• Via Appia, the Appian way (312 BC), from Rome to … 展开