Roman Roads of Southern Italy
Part of The Encyclopedia of Southern Italy.
Roman Roads of Southern Italy:
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Via Appia |
1st phase: 312 BC; Rome to Capua, built by Censor Appius Caecus 2nd phase: 250 BC; Capua to Beneventum, by Appius Claudius Pulcher 3rd phase: 214 BC; Beneventum to Brundisium (by 2 routes, one through Venusium and the other through Tarentum) |
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Via Aquilia |
From Capua, through Campania, Lucania, and Bruttium, to Rhegium. Constucted by M. Aquilius Gallus, proconsul, and praetor in Sicily |
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Via Campana |
See Via Consularis. |
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Via Consularis |
Sometimes called Via Campana. Between Capua and Cumae, with a branch to Puteoli. |
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Via Domitiana |
Coast road from Sinuessa to Surrentum, constructed by Emperor Domitian in the late 1st Century AD. |
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Via Egnatia |
A branch of the Via Appia, from Beneventum, through Canusium and Egnatia, to Brundisium. |
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Via Numicia |
From Corfinium, through northern Samnium, to Venusia. |
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Via Trajana |
A branch of the Via Appia, between Tarentum and Rhegium, on the coast. Repaired by Trajan. |