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WEBSITE ENABLING YOU TO TRAVEL IN THE PRESENT UNITED EUROPE
TO DISCOVER OUR COMMON ROMAN ROOTS OF 2000 YEARS AGO
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Cultural Route
Cultural Route
It is a cultural-tourist
itinerary centred on Roman archaeology embracing at the moment the 4
European regions involved in the project, namely:
Emilia-Romagna
(I), Bavaria
(D), Western Greece
(GR) and Bulgaria (BG). The
Cultural Route will enable you to visit the cities pointed out in the Peutinger’s Tabula
and to discover their Roman heritage in all its aspects. Furthermore,
the Cultural Route will enable you to plan a personal tourist
itinerary to discover archaeological sites, parks and museums,
when and along paths which you prefer, thanks to a set
of historical information and a list of possible places of accommodation.
Tabula Peutingeriana
This is a fragment of the most antique
road map in existence, Peutinger's Tabula. More precisely, it is the
XII century copy of a Roman road map. The incredible thing is that it
is the only antique map that can be compared with a 21st century road
map.
Our idea was to utilise the same map that the Roman legions used to
retrace the steps along the same roads that today we use constantly.
During your cybernetic navigation you can see the same things that the
Roman legionnaires saw 2000 years ago.
Peutinger's Tabula was originally a long parchment map 6.80 metres by
34 centimetres. During the 19th century the map was divided into 11
segments for preservation purposes plus one segment reconstructed in
1916 because the original was lost in the XII century.
The original copy of the Peutinger’s Tabula is preserved by the
National Library of Vienna, partner of the ROMIT project.
History of the Tabula
Peutinger's Tabula
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