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Via Julia Augusta Roman road map

About 422 km long, also known as Via Iulia Augusta. 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 Julia Augusta

The Via Julia Augusta is a Roman road about 422 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 15 separate segments and crosses France, Italy and Monaco. The longest stretch, 283 km (67%), is in France. 7 Roman places lie along it, from Savo to Theline.

None of the Via Julia Augusta 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.

  • 422 kmlength
  • 15segments
  • 7Roman places
  • 3countries

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured422100%
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 Julia Augusta goes

CountryLength (km)
France283
Italy44
Monaco5.3

Roman places along the Via Julia Augusta

In order along the route, from Savo to Theline. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Savo
  2. Album Ingaunum
  3. Ad Horrea
  4. Col. Forum Iulii
  5. Col. Aquae Sextiae
  6. Ernaginum
  7. Theline

Modern towns near the route

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

  • Savona (Italy)
  • Albenga (Italy)
  • Imperia (Italy)
  • Sanremo (Italy)
  • Ventimiglia (Italy)
  • Menton (France)
  • Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
  • Monaco (Monaco)
  • Saint-Roch (France)
  • Nice (France)
  • Plaine du Var (France)
  • Les Moulins (France)
  • Saint-Laurent-du-Var (France)
  • Cagnes-sur-Mer (France)
  • Antibes (France)
  • Juan-les-Pins (France)
  • Vallauris (France)
  • Le Cannet (France)
  • Cannes (France)
  • Mandelieu-la-Napoule (France)
  • Saint-Raphaël (France)
  • Fréjus (France)
  • Aix-en-Provence (France)
  • Salon-de-Provence (France)
  • Arles (France)

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 15 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] CIL 17.2 (13): Walser, Gerold (1986). Miliaria provinciarum Narbonensis Galliarum Germaniarum. de Gruyter, Berlin and New York. [2] Segard 2002 (5): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file. [3] Loseby and Häussler 1994 (5): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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