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Route van de Via Aurelia
Ab Torrimpietra (km 22), Stadtteil von Fiumicino, verläuft die Via Aurelia entlang der Küste und berührt oder streift in ihrem weiteren Verlauf folgende Orte bzw. Landschaften:
Palidoro (km 26)
Ladispoli (km 45)
Cerveteri (km 46)
Santa Severa (das antike Pyrgi, km 51)
Santa Marinella (km 60)
Civitavecchia (km 71)
Terme Taurine (das antike Aquae Tauri, km 72)
Tarquinia (km 101)
die Maremma
Capalbio (km 132)
Orbetello (km 141)
Talamone (km 165)
Vetulonia (km 207)
Populonia (km 249)
bei Vada Volterrana verlässt die Via Aurelia heute die Küste und strebt auf Pisa zu
Pisa (km 336 – Pisa war zur Zeit der Römer eine Hafenstadt an der Mündung des Arno)
Viareggio (km 367)
Luni (km 399)
Genua (km 501)
Savona (km 546)
Albenga (km 588)
Sanremo (km 640)
Ventimiglia (km 655)
Verlauf in Frankreich
In Frankreich durchquert die Via Aurelia die Städte Nizza, Marseille und Arles; nordwestlich von Arles fand sie dann Anschluss an die Via Domitia. Sie folgte an der Côte d’Azur der Grande Corniche, dann der heutigen Route nationale 7 bis Aix-en-Provence, um von dort auf zwei Strecken in die Nähe von Arles zu gelangen:
Cap Martin
La Turbie
Cimiez (Cemenelum, km 687, heute Ortsteil von Nizza)
Antibes (Antipolis)
Fréjus (Forum Iulii, km 742 – hier verlässt die Via Aurelia ein weiteres Mal die Küste und verläuft bis Vidauban das Tal des Argens hinauf)
Le Muy
Vidauban (Forum voconii)
Le Luc
Cabasse (Matavo)
Brignoles
Tourves (Turris)
Aix-en-Provence (Aquae Sextiae)
In Aix begann eine südliche Abzweigung nach
Marseille (Massilia)
Vitrolles
Fos-sur-Mer und
Arles (Arelate, km 962 – die Stadt wurde von Südosten über die Alyscamps und die sich daran anschließende Avenue des Alyscamps erreicht)
Saint-Gabriel (Ernaginum, der größte gallorömische Straßenknotenpunkt, wo die Via Aurelia auf die Via Domitia trifft, und auch die beiden Abzweigungen wieder zusammentreffen, heute südöstlicher Ortsteil von Tarascon).
sowie eine nordwestliche Abzweigung nach
Eguilles
Salon-de-Provence (Pisaris)
Aureille (!)
Mouriès
Maussane-les-Alpilles (die Via Aurelia verläuft südlich des Ortes)
Paradou
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Route van de Via Domitia
This route of the Via Domitia is:
Briançon (Brigantio)
Chorges (Caturigomagus)
Gap (Vapincum)
Le Monetier Allemont (Alabons)
Embrun (Eburodunum)
Sisteron (Segustero)
Notre Dame des Anges (Alaunium)
Céreste (Catuiacia)
Apt (Apta Julia)
Notre Dame des Lumières (Ad Fines)
Cavaillon (Cabellio)
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Glanum)
Saint Gabriel (Ernaginum)
Beaucaire (Ugernum). This was the point at which the Via Domitia crossed the Rhône and entered the Languedoc-Roussillon. On the road on towards Nîmes, between the two towns is an 8 km (5 mile) stretch of the Via Domitia which is well preserved, with even three of its mile posts still in place. Click here for more on Beaucaire.
Mas des Tourelles. 8 km from Beaucaire (on the D38) is an ancient Gallo-Roman villa with workshops and pottery kilns, which probably dates from the Augustan period. Modern actors in togas recreate the Roman wine-making process, though the fact that they imagine that vinters would wear togas bodes ill for any pretence at historical accuracy. From here it is half an hour's signposted walk to the Via Domitia and its milestones.
Nîmes (Nemausus). Here you can see well preseved Roman triumphal gateway, built into a later palace and rediscovered in the eighteenth century. Called the Porte d'Auguste (Augustus's Gate), it is through this gate that the Via Domitia entered Nîmes from the East. The central passageways were for chariots, the smaller side one for pedestrians.
Pont-Ambruis (Ambrussum) is a Gallo-Roman archaeological site in Villetelle, Hérault département.It is close to the modern town Lunel, between Nîmes and Montpellier. Ambrussum is notable for its bridge (French: Pont Ambroix), painted by Gustave Courbet, and for its oppidum. The site has a lower settlement (currently in the course of excavation) which was apparently abandoned due to flooding. The higher settlement was built later and within a surrounding wall including 21 towers. The bridge was still usable in the Middle Ages, with all 11 arches, but when painted by Courbet in 1857 only two arches were left, and one of those was lost in flooding of the Vidourle River in 1933. A single arch remains. The Via Domitia, visible with traces of Roman chariot tracks forming "railway tracks", leads up a hill, where ruins of habitations can be seen. While the Via Domitia was being constructed in the 2nd century BC, Ambrussum, an existing Gallic settlent, became a staging post along the route. It had become a true town by the end of the 4th century AD. Long abandoned, there are still Roman remains to be seen. You can walk along a paved stretch of the Via Domitia here, rutted with deep potholes. The Roman bridge over the River Vidourle has one of its 11 arches still standing. (the remains of Ambrussum is on the other side of the A9 from Lunel).
Lunel-Vieil Ensérune. A famous oppidum well worth a visit. Below the site, level with the Canal du Midi, you can make out the straight line of the Via Domitia running through the landscape. Click here for more on the Oppidum de Enserune.
Castelnau-le-Lez (Sextantio)
Montpellier [the exact Montpellier route around remains unknown]
Montbazin (Forum Domitii)
Mèze
Pinet
Saint-Thibéry (Cessero) - where the Via Domitia crosses the Hérault - see photo of bridge above right
Béziers (Baeterris)
Narbonne (Narbo Martius) At Narbonne a section of the Via Dominitia is exposed in the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville - See photograph on the right.
The Via Domitia crossed the Aude (known to the Romans as the Atax) by a seven-arched bridge at the site of the Pont des Marchands.
Fitou (Ad Viscensimum)
Salses (Ad Salsulae)
Perpignan. To the south of Perpignan and the hill-fort of Ruscino, the Via Domitia takes two routes. One runs along the coast, passing through Elne and the hill-fort of Illiberris, then through Port-Vendres. The other route runs inland, passing through Le Boulou, Les Cluses and the passes of Le Perthus and Panissars.
Ruscino where the road separates in two: the Inland Route and the Coastal Route.
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Inland Route
Montescot
Le Boulou
Cluses (Clausurae). The remains of two Roman forts at Les Cluses overlook the Via Domitia. The road is still clearly visible in the depths of the Rom Gorge, a convenient point for the Romans to control the movement of people (and armies), and to charge tolls. The road then lead over the Pyrenees to the south of the Panissar pass, near Perthus.
Le Perthus (Pannissars) Col de Pannissars. Here the Via Domitia passed between the two triumphal pillars (30m by 15m), which formed a triumphal arch. You can still see the foundations of this monument, which was built in 71 BC by Pompey, to commemorate victories over the Hispanic peoples. On it were engraved the the names of the 876 towns where the rebellion was crushed. From here, there is a panoramic view over Spain, including the road, known from here as the Via Augusta. Also at Panissars you can still see where the Via Domitia was hewn out of the living rock.
Coastal Route
Elne (Illiberris)
Saint-Cyprien
Argelès
Collioure
Port-Vendres (Portus Veneris)
Banyuls
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The two branches rejoin at La Junquera (Deciana) where the Via Augusta begins.
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Burdigala (C)
Carcassone milia viii (Castellum)