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Via Cassia Roman road map

About 374 km long. The red line is the route recorded in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads.

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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.

About the Via Cassia

The Via Cassia is a Roman road about 374 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 10 separate segments within Italy. 4 Roman places lie along it, from Volsinii to Pistoriae.

None of the Via Cassia is classed as certain: almost all of it is conjectured, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route.

  • 374 kmlength
  • 10segments
  • 4Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured374100%
Hypothetical00%

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.

Where the Via Cassia goes

CountryLength (km)
Italy374

Roman places along the Via Cassia

In order along the route, from Volsinii to Pistoriae. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Volsinii
  2. Arretium
  3. Florentia
  4. Pistoriae

Modern towns near the route

These towns and cities are within about 4 km of the road, in route order.

  • Vatican City (Vatican City)
  • Viterbo (Italy)
  • Arezzo (Italy)
  • Campo di Marte (Italy)
  • Florence (Italy)
  • Sesto Fiorentino (Italy)
  • Campi Bisenzio (Italy)
  • Prato (Italy)
  • Pistoia (Italy)
  • Montecatini-Terme (Italy)
  • Capannori (Italy)
  • Lucca (Italy)

Source

Road name as recorded in the Itinerary field of Itiner-e (version 2024 1.3, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17122148). Sources most often cited by its 10 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] BAtlas 42 (10): Harris, W. V. (2000). Map 42 Arretium-Asculum. in Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, pp. 660-679.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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