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'{{Short description|Ancient Roman road in Italy}} [[Image:Map of Roman roads in Italy.png|thumb|right|300px|Route of Via Salaria (in gray)]] The '''Via Salaria''' was an ancient [[Roman roads|Roman road]] in [[Italy]]. It eventually ran from [[Rome]] (from [[Porta Salaria]] of the [[Aurelian Walls]]) to ''Castrum Truentinum'' ([[Porto d'Ascoli]]) on the [[Adriatic Sea|Adriatic coast]], a distance of 242&nbsp;km. The road also passed through Reate ([[Rieti]]) and [[Ascoli Piceno|Asculum]] ([[Ascoli Piceno]]). [[Strada statale 4 Via Salaria]] (SS4) is the modern [[State highways (Italy)|state highway]] that maintains the old road's name and runs on the same path from Rome to the [[Adriatic Sea]]. ==History== The Via Salaria owes its name to the [[Latin]] word for "salt", since it was the route by which the [[Sabines]] living nearer the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the river [[Tiber]], the [[Campus Salinarum]] (near [[Portus]]).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Morelli|first=Cinzia|last2=Forte|first2=Viviana|date=2014-06-17|title=Il Campus Salinarum Romanarum e l'epigrafe dei conductores|url=http://journals.openedition.org/mefra/2059|journal=Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité|language=it|issue=126–1|doi=10.4000/mefra.2059|issn=0223-5102}}</ref> Peoples nearer the [[Adriatic Sea]] used it to fetch it from production sites there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/via-salaria_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/|title=SALARIA, VIA in "Enciclopedia Italiana"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2018-03-10}}</ref> It was one of many ancient [[salt road]]s in Europe, and some historians, amongst whom [[Francesco Palmegiani]], consider the Salaria and the trade in salt to have been the origin of the settlement of Rome. Some remains still exist of the mountain sections of the road. == Roman bridges == {{Further|List of Roman bridges}} [[File:Ponte Romano di Rieti - primo piano - 3.jpg|thumb|Remains of the Roman bridge over [[Velino]] river in [[Rieti]]]] There are the remains of several Roman bridges along the road, including the [[Ponte del Gran Caso]], Ponte della Scutella, Ponte d'Arli, [[Ponte di Quintodecimo]], Ponte Romano (Acquasanta), [[Ponte Salario]] and Ponte Sambuco. == See also == * [[Roman bridge]] * [[Ancient Roman engineering|Roman engineering]] * [[Catacomb of Priscilla]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Via_Salaria.html Via Salaria (Platner and Ashby's ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'', London: Oxford University Press, 1929)] {{List of Roman roads}} {{Authority control}} {{Coord|41.900|N|12.483|E|region:IT_source:enwiki-uniquenames|display=title}} [[Category:Roman roads in Italy|Salaria, Via]] [[Category:Transport in Lazio]] [[Category:Transport in le Marche]] [[Category:Transport in Abruzzo]] [[Category:Rome Q. II Parioli]] [[Category:Rome Q. III Pinciano]] [[Category:Rome Q. IV Salario]] [[Category:Rome Q. XVII Trieste]] {{Italy-road-stub}}'