Backroads Europe

The Via Cassia in Italy (1x2)

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The Etruscans knew paved roads as early as 400 BC. The Romans took over - like so much else - the art of street construction from their former masters and brought it to perfection. Rome was the center of a vast empire. The city is still full of traces of this glorious time. This also includes Largo Argentina, a square with antique columns from the third and fourth centuries BC.