Roman Roads // Camino connectors

[amorfati1]

Greetings -
researching yesterday reg the Via Claudia Augustus (from the south through the Alps, nowadays Italy through Austria to Germany) which took 60 years to built, I found the sites below which might be of interest.
During the camino I often walked over or across or alongside Roman roads and was always intrigued by the longevity of those paths, among many other aspects of roman roads.

https://omnesviae.org/#!iter_Tredente_Avgvsta vindelicv

and for roman sites nearby

best wishes - C

 

[HaraldS]

Interesting topic!

When I walked from Trier to Le Puy, I also used long stretches on the roman road connecting Lyon and Cologne, called the Via Agrippa. It's good as a walking path or for agricultural traffic. The French highways A6 and A31 cover the same direction and are successors of this road.

It is most likely that a lot of pilgrims in medieval times from northern/western Germany also used this road.

Harald

 

[SabsP]

@amorfati1 ...thank you.
My training grounds...

 

[pudgypilgrim]

You know, it's funny. Walking from Paris we were on a lot of Roman roads, but somehow it never occurred to me what they were until I reached a stretch that was actually called the chemin de César.

 

[jeffnd]

I don't have the book in front of me, but Brierley mentions some of the Roman roads of the Frances in his guidebook. It says that they aren't sure where the bedrock to build them up came from, since there were no quarries nearby. The Romans would have had to have hauled the stone in from hundreds of miles away. I found that pretty interesting.

 

[jungleboy]

Great topic!

Those who have walked the Camino Francés will remember the Roman road and bridge on the stage between Puente la Reina and Estella.