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Via Aemilia Roman road map

About 259 km long. The red line is the route recorded in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

About the Via Aemilia

The Via Aemilia is a Roman road about 259 km long in the Itiner-e atlas of ancient roads. It is mapped as 10 separate segments within Italy. 8 Roman places lie along it, from Ariminum to Placentia.

None of the Via Aemilia is classed as certain: almost all of it is conjectured, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route.

  • 259 kmlength
  • 10segments
  • 8Roman places
  • 1country

How sure are we where it ran?

How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured259100%
Hypothetical00%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

Where the Via Aemilia goes

CountryLength (km)
Italy259

Roman places along the Via Aemilia

In order along the route, from Ariminum to Placentia. Names are the Roman ones from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  1. Ariminum
  2. Faventia
  3. Ad Silarum
  4. Felsina
  5. Mutina
  6. Regium Lepidum
  7. Parma
  8. Placentia

Modern towns near the route

These towns and cities are within about 4 km of the road, in route order.

  • Rimini (Italy)
  • Cesena (Italy)
  • Forlì (Italy)
  • Faenza (Italy)
  • Imola (Italy)
  • San Lazzaro (Italy)
  • Bologna (Italy)
  • Castelfranco Emilia (Italy)
  • Modena (Italy)
  • Reggio nell'Emilia (Italy)
  • Parma (Italy)
  • Fidenza (Italy)
  • Piacenza (Italy)

Source

Road name as recorded in the Itinerary field of Itiner-e (version 2024 1.3, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17122148). Sources most often cited by its 10 segments (segments citing each in brackets): [1] BAtlas 39 (10): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file. [2] BAtlas 40 (10): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file. [3] Luccarini 2002 (10): short reference only, not listed in the Itiner-e bibliography file.. Route lines: Itiner-e, CC BY 4.0. See all data sources and licences.

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