Roman roads were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire

Ancient Rome boasted impressive technological feats, using many advances that would be lost in the Middle Ages. These accomplishments

The public road system of the Romans was thoroughly military in its aims and spirit. It was designed to unite and consolidate the conquests of the Roman people, whether within or

• Historic roads and trails
• Legacy of the Roman Empire
• Roman military engineering
• Ancient Roman technology

Livy mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on them, at times long before the first paved road—the Appian Way. Unless these allusions are just simple

Roman roads varied from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay

There are many examples of roads that still follow the route of Roman roads.
Italian areas
Major roads