"Omnes viae Romam ducunt” or “All roads lead to Rome”: this phrase summarises succinctly the importance of Roman roads. At the peak of its expansive phase, it had developed a road network to make it easy to travel to Rome from anywhere within the network.

The streets of ancient Rome represent an extraordinary feat of engineering still to this day. It also reveals an acute understanding on the part of the Empire of the role and importance of a road network for military and economic purposes.