Roman roads in Belgium
The Via Belgica is the road that defines Roman Belgium, running east from the Channel at Boulogne through Bavay and Tongeren toward Cologne and the Rhine. It carried the traffic between the British provinces and the German frontier, and long sections in Limburg are still followed by modern roads and field boundaries.
What to see
Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium and sits squarely on the Via Belgica; its Gallo-Roman Museum is built over the remains and a stretch of the second-century town wall still stands. At Bavay, just across the French border, the forum complex is among the largest excavated anywhere in the north-western provinces.
- Mapped segments
- 280
- Surveyed length
- 3,060 km
- Named roads
- 3
Measured from the Itiner-e survey. Segments by certainty of line: conjectured 192, certain 64, hypothetical 24. A conjectured line is one inferred from evidence either side of it, not a road whose existence is doubted.
Named roads in Belgium
Roads the survey identifies by name here, with the length mapped within Belgium's modern borders. Most ran further.
- Via Belgica 183 km
- Via Lacina 17 km
- Via Traiana 13 km
What kind of roads
- Secondary Road 219 segments
- Main Road 61 segments