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Everyone needs to get around somehow. But how? Today all you have to do is get in your car, and get on the road. Well Romans did pretty much the same exact thing when they needed to get somewhere. Rome was full of roads that were easily traveled on for multiple uses and users. So lets take a tour of some of these Roman Roads!




  Roman roads were important, and still are this present day. The quote, “All Roads Lead To Rome” isn’t just a coincidence. In the ancient times the Romans would make a new road that lead straight to Rome after every victory. In the end the roads were 53,819 miles long, and the width of each road varied betweeen importance and function. These roads could be eight to forty feet wide. Normally they used some resources that were available such as; flint, gravel, slag, iron, rough concrete, small broken stones,  or sometimes fitted flat stones. They marked each road with a milestone that was almost a mile long. A milestone compared to today’s society would be a street sign. All of the Roman Roads helped the city with easy trading goods, and helped them move their troops more easily. To make sure people could get through the roads more easily they paved them, but in the Roman Republic the rules were to have gravel roads except on high traffic ways.