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Encyclopedia Britannica



VALERIA, VIA

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 858 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
VALERIA, VIA , an ancient highroad of Italy, the continuation north-eastwards of the Via Tiburtina (q.v.). It probably owed its origin to M. Valerius Messalla, censor in 154 B.C. It ran first up the Anio valley past Varia (q.v.), and then, abandoning it at the 36th mile, where the Via Sublacensis diverged, ascended to Carseoli (q.v.), and then again to the lofty pass of Monte Bove (4003 ft.), whence it descended again to the valley occupied by the Lago di Fucino (q.v.). It is doubtful whether it ran farther than the eastern point of the territory of the Marsi at Cerfennia, to the N.E. of the Lacus Fucinus, before the time of
Claudius
 . Stlabo states that in his day it went as far as
Corfinium
 , and this important place must have been in some way accessible from Rome, but probably, beyond Cerfennia, only by a track. The difficult route from Cerfennia to the valley of the Aternusa drop of nearly moo ft., involving too the crossing of the
main
 
ridge
  of the Apennines(3675 ft.) by the Monslmeus(mod. Forca Caruso)was, however, probably not made into a highroad until
Claudius
 's reign: one of his milestones (Corp. Inscr. Lat. ix. 5973) states that he in A.D. 4849 made the Via Claudia Valeria from Cerfennia to the mouth of the Aternus (mod. Pescara). He also constructed a road, the Via Claudia Nova, connecting the Via
Salaria
 , which it left at Foruli (mod. Civitatomassa, near Amiternum) with the Via Valeria near the
modern
  Popoli. This road was continued
south
  (we do not know by whom or when) to Aesernia. From Popoli the road followed the valley of the Atemus to its mouth, and there joined the
coast
 -road at Pescara. The
modern
  railway from Rome to Castellammare Adriatico follows closely the line of the Via Valeria.
See E. Albertini in Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome (1907),
463 sqq. (T. As.)


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