Roman roads in Spain

A map of the 35,054 km of known Roman road in this country, drawn solid, dashed or dotted by how certain the route is.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

Roman roads in Spain at a glance

Spain has about 35,054 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 1,495 segments. That puts it 3rd among the 39 countries with Roman roads in the dataset. Only 1% of it is classed as certain; almost all of it is conjectured. None of the roads here has a well-known name in the data, so the map shows unnamed Roman roads only. 437 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 35,054 kmof Roman road
  • 1,495segments
  • 0named roads
  • 437Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain2231%
Conjectured34,70299%
Hypothetical1290%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

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Roman places in Spain

437 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. These 60 are the most important. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Aquae Celenae
  • Salmantica
  • Emerita Augusta
  • Segobriga
  • Arboukale
  • Iuncaria
  • Col. Caesaraugusta
  • Caesarobriga
  • Iniesta
  • Semproniana?
  • Avila
  • Corduba
  • Gerunda
  • Hispalis
  • Ilerda
  • Uxama (Argaela)
  • Anticaria
  • Ilurcis
  • Iria Flavia
  • Lucus Augusti
  • Valentia
  • (Ad) Fines
  • Astigi
  • Asturica (Augusta)
  • Bergidum Flavium
  • Bletisa(ma)
  • Emporiae
  • Mirobriga
  • Numantia
  • Ocules
  • Ouxama Barka
  • Segisamo
  • Segovia
  • Termes
  • Toletum
  • Ad Duos Pontes
  • Arriaca
  • Carthago Nova
  • Caum
  • Caurium
  • Celsa
  • Celti?
  • Col. Barcino
  • Col. Tarraco
  • Complutum
  • Dertosa
  • Edeta
  • Keresos
  • Lacipea
  • Lancia
  • Metellinum
  • Osca
  • Segontia
  • Aratispi
  • Basti
  • Bele(g)ia
  • Cartima
  • Castulo
  • Consabura
  • Gigia

Towns near Roman roads in Spain

These are the larger towns in Spain that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.

  • Madrid
  • Barcelona
  • Valencia
  • Zaragoza
  • Sevilla

Source

Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Spain boundary. See all data sources and licences.

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