Roman roads in France
Roman Gaul was the most heavily roaded province outside Italy itself, and France carries more mapped Roman road than any other modern country in this survey, narrowly ahead of Turkey. The backbone was laid by Agrippa in the 20s BC, radiating from Lugdunum at Lyon to the Rhine, the Atlantic, the Channel and the Mediterranean. In the south the Via Domitia is older still: cut in 118 BC to link Italy to Spain, it is the earliest Roman road in Gaul and long stretches of it survive in Languedoc and Provence.
- Mapped segments
- 2,108
- Surveyed length
- 42,350 km
- Named roads
- 4
Measured from the Itiner-e survey. Segments by certainty of line: conjectured 2,099, certain 8, hypothetical 1. A conjectured line is one inferred from evidence either side of it, not a road whose existence is doubted.
Named roads in France
Roads the survey identifies by name here, with the length mapped within France's modern borders. Most ran further.
- Via Domitia 604 km
- Via Aquitania 395 km
- Via Julia Augusta 264 km
- Via Agrippae 239 km
What kind of roads
- Secondary Road 1,399 segments
- Main Road 709 segments