- Via Salaria
The Via Salaria was an ancient
Roman road inItaly .It eventually ran from
Rome (fromPorta Salaria of theAurelian Walls ) to "Castrum Truentinum" (Porto d'Ascoli) on theAdriatic coast - a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti ) andAsculum (Ascoli Piceno ). The Via Salaria owes its name to theLatin word for "salt", since it was the route by which theSabines came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, one of many ancientsalt road s in Europe. Some historians consider the Salaria and the trade in salt to have been the origin of the settlement of Rome. Some remains still exist of the mountain sections of the road.A modern road by this name, part of the SS4 highway, runs 51 km from Rome to
Osteria Nuova .Roman bridges
:"For an overview of the location of Roman bridges, see
List of Roman bridges ".There are the remains of several Roman bridges along the road, including the
Ponte del Gran Caso , Ponte della Scutella, Ponte d’Arli,Ponte di Quintodecimo , Ponte Romano (Acquasanta), Ponte Salario and Ponte Sambuco.See also
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Roman bridge
*Roman engineering External links
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Via_Salaria.html Via Salaria (Platner and Ashby's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, 1929)]
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