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Via Cassia with the olive trees on both
sides. Did it look like this 2000 years ago? The road with the
large flat stones are the same. Here the Roman armies has gone
at that time.
Via Cassia is still in use to-day for
some km. The road is 2.5 m wide. Some places 4 m was measured.
Our feeling walking on this road, is the
wind of history. On these same road, with the same stones,
Augustus may have been walking more than 2000 years ago. What
is left from our activity to-day in year 4008?
We may understand the need for good roads
in the Roman empire.
The "road" to the right may be 5 to 700
years old. Without the solid stones, this "road" has been
transformed into a quite special shape as a result of the
usage and water during rainy periods.
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A large flat stone from the Roman road. Each
stone could be 20 to 30 cm thick. The material was a special hard
black volcanic rock seen many places in Italy. You find this at the
top of Versus and many other places. The hardness is more equal to
granite, compared the the other type of rock quite common: The tufa
rock which is quite loose.
Via Cassia towards south. The mountains in the
horizon is the rest of a ring volcano, named Monti Cimini with the
Lago de Vico as the lake in the middle. The top to the left is 896 m
high.
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