Via sublacensis

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The Via Sublacensis was a state road ( via publica ) of the Roman Empire .

It connected the city of Sublaqueum with the Via Valeria . According to Frontinus , it was not paved until the Neronian era .

The road continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages. Pope Pius VI had the road rebuilt, whereby most of the old course was still used.

It roughly corresponds to today's strada statale 411 Sublacense.

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Individual evidence

  1. Frontin. aqu. 7th
  2. ^ Johann Heinrich Christoph Westphal: The Roman Campaign in Topographical and Antiquarian Respect, Berlin 1829, Google Books