Via Domitia - Route

Route

This route can be traced on topographical maps overprinted with the ancient route, in G. Castellve, J.-B. Compsa, J. Kotarba and A. Pezin, eds. Voies romaines du Rhône à l'Èbre: Via Domitia et Via Augusta (DAF 61) Paris 1997.

  • Briançon (Brigantio)
  • Chorges (Caturigomagus)
  • Gap (Vapincum)
  • Le Monetier Allemont (Alabons)
  • Embrun (Eburodunum)
  • Sisteron (Segustero)
  • Lurs (Alaunium)
  • Céreste (Catuiacia)
  • Apt (Apta Julia)
  • Notre Dame des Lumières (Ad Fines)
  • Cavaillon (Cabellio)
  • Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Glanum)
  • Saint-Gabriel (Ernaginum)
  • Beaucaire (Ugernum)
  • Nîmes (Nemausus)
  • Ambrussum
  • Lunel-Vieil
  • Castelnau-le-Lez (Sextantio)
  • Montpellier route remains unknown
  • Montbazin (Forum Domitii)
  • Mèze
  • Pinet
  • Saint-Thibéry (Cessero) and its Roman bridge
  • Béziers (Baeterris)
  • Narbonne (Narbo Martius) At Narbonne, a section of the Via Domitia is exposed in the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. The Via Domitia crossed the Atax (the Aude) by a seven-arched bridge at the site of the Pont des Marchands.
  • Fitou (Ad Viscensimum)
  • Salses (Ad Salsulae)
  • Perpignan
  • Ruscino

At Ruscino, the road separates in two: the Inland Route and the Coastal Route, which rejoin at La Junquera.

Coastal Route

  • Elne (Illiberis)
  • Saint-Cyprien
  • Argelès
  • Collioure
  • Port-Vendres (Portus Veneris)
  • Banyuls

Inland Route

  • Montescot
  • Le Boulou
  • Les Cluses (Clausurae)
  • Le Perthus (Col de Panissars), at the Trophy of Pompey

Rejoins at:

  • La Junquera (Deciana)

Here the Via Augusta begins.

Read more about this topic:  Via Domitia

Famous quotes containing the word route:

    “By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”
    —Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

    “no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan,
    or thought:
    no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept:
    terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities
    of escape open: no route shut,”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    “In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)