Via Aemilia - Via Flaminia - Via Appia Censors Appius Claudius
Caecus and Gaius Flaminius and consul Aemilius Lepidus couldn't
imagine that the roads they built in the 3rd and 2nd century
B.C. would still be in service more than 2200 years later.
They're now officially called the SS7, SS3 and SS9, but to
everyone they're still the good old Appia, Flaminia and
Emilia... The Via Appia (Appian Way) was one of the earliest and
strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient
republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. The
road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who
began and completed the first section as a military road to the
south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars. "Appia teritur regina
longarum viarum" (the Appian way is commonly said to be the
queen of the long roads). The Via Flaminia lead from Rome over
the Apennine Mountains to Rimini on the Adriatic coast of the
Sea, being the major option the Romans had for travel between
Etruria, Latium and Campania and the