Via Postumia
The Via Postumia was an ancient military
.It ran from the coast at
From Cremona the road ran eastward to Bedriacum, the current town of Calvatone, where it forked, one branch running to the right to Mantua, the other to the left to Verona, crossing the Adige river on the Ponte Pietra, the only bridge on the Adige river at that time, and then traversing the Venetian plain, crossing the Piave River at Maserada sul Piave until finally reaching Aquileia, an important military frontier town founded by Rome in 181 BC. The Roman conquest of Liguria depended upon this road, and several of the more important towns owed their origin largely to it. Cremona was its central point, the distance being reckoned from it both eastwards and westwards.[2]
The ancient
Crossing northern Italy from Genoa to Aquileia, it was used as a pilgrim route to the Holy Land. Traveling westward, pilgrims could link up with the Camino de Santiago.
References
- ISBN 9789004122598
- ^ public domain: Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Postumia, Via". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 197. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the