This Is Italy
Have you ever wondered what the main roads from the time of the Roman Empire would look like on a metro map? Well, here's the answer.
Cartographer and statistics student at the University of Chicago Sasha Trubetskoy has brought the major roads in the great Roman Empire of yesteryear back to life in this interesting map.
All roads to Rome
In this map of Italy and the rest of Europe, the cities are the stops of the metro. The cities are connected by the main roads from Roman times, such as the Via Appia.
These are the Roman roads incorporated into the metro map:
- Via Appia
- via Augusta
- Via Aurelia
- Via Delapidata
- Via Domitia
- Via Egnatia
- Via Flaminia
- Via Flavia (I, II, III)
- Via Julia Augusta
- Via Lusitanorum
- Through Military
- Via Popilia
- Via Portumia
- Via Salary
- Via Tiburtina
- Via Traiana
- Via Traiana Nova
Sasha says: 'I have always had a great interest in ancient Rome. Suddenly I got the idea to represent the roads in the old Empire in a modern way. I wanted to make a high-quality transport map.'
To put together the metro plan, he based himself on old maps of the Empire at the height of his power in 125 AD. On the map you can clearly see that in those days all roads led to Rome, as the famous saying goes.
Creative freedoms
The student has allowed himself some creative freedom when making. For example, he had to merge some roads for clarity and left out less important roads.
Unfortunately, the Roman roads in the Netherlands are not on the map either. These were not paved main roads, but only gravel B-roads.
On Sasha's website you can a large version of the Roman Empire as a metro map. There you will also find many other interestingly designed maps.
Source: thelocal.it
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