Via Aurelia

The Via Aurelia is a Roman road in Italy constructed in approximately 241 BC. The project was undertaken by Gaius Aurelius Cotta, who at that time was censor. Cotta had a history of building roads for Rome, as he had overseen the construction of a military road in Sicily connecting Agrigentum and Panormus. Today, the Strada statale 1 Via Aurelia continues to provide road transport along the histor... (Wikipedia)