Roman road

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	Roman road The Romans, as a military, commercial and political expedient, became adept at constructing long straight roads. The Roman roads were essential for the growth of their empire in terms of being able to speedily move armies. The Roman emphasis on constructing straight roads often resulted in steep grades relatively impractical for most economic traffic. These lengthy highways were very important in maintaining both the stability and expansion of the empire. The Roman roads often used deep roadbeds of crushed stone as a underlaying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. The legions made good time on these roads and some are still used millennia later. A popular proverb says that "every road leads to Rome". Roman roads were designed that way to hinder provinces organising resistance against the Empire.

Some Roman roads

There are many examples of roads that still follow the route of Roman roads.

France

Via Aquitania[?], from Narbonne, where it connected to the Via Domitia, to the Atlantic Ocean across Toulouse and Bordeaux,
Via Domitia (118 BC), from Nimes to the Pyrenees, where it joins to the Via Augusta[?] at the Col de Panissars[?].

Italy

Via Appia, the Appian way (312 BC), from Rome to Apulia (Puglie[?])
Via Augusta[?] (8 BC),
Via Aurelia[?] (241 BC), from Rome to France
Via Cassia[?], from Rome to Tuscany
Via Claudia Julia Augusta[?] (13 BC)
Via Emiliavia Scauri[?] (109 BC),
Via Flaminia[?],
Via Postumia[?] (148),
Via Salaria[?], from Rome to the Adriatic Sea (in Marches[?])

these (all active today) are called "consular" roads and their respective names come from the consul that ordered their construction.

Spain

Via Augusta, from Cadiz to the Pyrenees, where it joins to the Via Domitia at the Coll de Panissars. It passes through Valencia and Barcelona.

External link

http://www.viaeromanae.org
Roman Roads in Britain (http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Britain/.Texts/CODROM/home.html) by Thomas Codrington, published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1903

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