Rome is a nursery of roads. As the first great pan-European state, the Roman Empire was the first society to have to design and build roads throughout its empire, creating a network of over 150,000 kilometers of roads. This immense network branched out in all directions, connecting the capital, Rome, to the rest of its territories. A dozen consular roads still exist in Italy today. Over the centuries, their routes have undergone various modifications: they have been repaved and widened, while others have retained the ancient stone surface.
Walking along the imposing walls, we have the impression of penetrating its structure with our curious eyes. We can observe with precision the arrangement of the bricks, the volcanic tuff in all its shades, the remains of marble recovered from other monuments that still show fragments of letters and symbols, signs of oxidation and fermentation. We also see a tangle of vegetation that clings to the wall, creating an exoskeleton that both damages and protects.
