Via Domitia

The Via Domitia was the first Roman road built in Gaul. It was given 120-118 BC Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus from proconsul in order and then also named after him.

The Via Domitia linking Italy to Spain by land. In the year 118 BC on the Via Domitia Narbonne (as Colonia Narbo Martius ) was established, where the construction of the Via Aquitania was started in the same year, which led westward across Toulouse and Bordeaux toward the Atlantic Ocean.

The Via Domitia crossed the Alps at the Col de Montgenevre (1850 m), followed the valley of the Durance, the Rhone crossed at Beaucaire, and finally followed the coast of the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees.

The road was almost straight on solid ground. In the cities, they crossed, they consisted of cobbles or slabs, outside of tamped earth on layers of gravel or crushed stone. Along access roads they usually crossed a bund with a goal and a victory arch, as in Nimes with the Porte d' Auguste or in Glanum with the Arc de Triomphe.

Cities

Towns along the Via Domitia were:

• Susa ( Segusium )
• Briançon ( Brigantio )
• Gap ( Vapincum )
• Embrun ( Eburodunum )
• Sisteron ( Segustero )
• Apt ( Apta Julia )
• Cavaillon ( Cabellio )
• Tarascon - Beaucaire ( Ugernum ) as the crossing of the Rhone,
• Nîmes ( Nemausus )
• Béziers ( Baeterris )
• Narbonne ( Narbo Martius ).

Bridges

Roman bridges Via:

• Roman bridge of Saint- Thibéry ( near Béziers )
• Pont Ambroix
• Pont Julien
• Pont Serme