The Alta Semita ("High Path") was a street in ancient Rome that gave its name to one of the 14 regions of Augustan Rome .
5-488: The Alta Semita brought traffic into Rome from the salt route ( Via Salaria ) that had existed since prehistoric times. The great antiquity of the street is also suggested by semita , a Latin word usually meaning "footpath" and not used for any other Roman street. It ran most likely along the modern Via del Quirinale and Via Venti Settembre , on the spine of the Quirinal Hill , creating a straight route southwest from
10-761: Is the modern state highway that maintains the old road's name and runs on the same path from Rome to the Adriatic Sea . 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 ). Peoples nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to fetch it from production sites there. It
15-857: The Porta Collina in the Servian Wall to a major temple from the Hadrianic era on the Collis Salutaris . It probably connected to the Vicus Iugarius . It may also be that the street called Alta Semita in the Roman Republic was not the same as the one known in the later Empire . The regional catalogues name Regio VI as Alta Semita , after the street. The temple of the Flavian family ( Templum Gentis Flaviae )
20-765: Was located in Alta Semita , according to the regional catalogue. This Ancient Rome –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Via Salaria The Via Salaria was an ancient 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 coast , a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate ( Rieti ) and Asculum ( Ascoli Piceno ). Strada statale 4 Via Salaria (SS4)
25-812: Was one of many ancient salt roads 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. 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. 41°54′00″N 12°28′59″E / 41.900°N 12.483°E / 41.900; 12.483 This Italian road or road transport-related article
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