Pre-roman lines, consular roman roads and medieval routes. From Sutri to La Storta along the via Francigena

The history of the via Francigena is much older and retraces the route of the via Cassia which from the late Republican age connected Rome with Florence and Luni, a Roman colony in the province of La Spezia. Even the roman via Cassia recovered previous paths that in pre-Roman age crossed through the heart of Etruria passing by some of today’s best-known archaeological sites at world level such as the ancient city of Veii, whose story we know between the 9th century BC to the middle ages. On Veii indeed has recently focused part of excavation and archaeological research promoted by the University Sapienza of Rome thanks to the “project Veio” that allowed to meet for the first time in a systematic way the urban area of the city in its historical, institutional and urban development and in the changing of organization and exploitation of urban space from the beginning of the settlement until the Augustan Municipium. With the belief that enhancement and protection of our heritage requires necessarily the knowledge of its past and its scientific circulation, we will make known the history of the route between La Storta and Sutri by focusing on Veii and other towns less known to the public, towns with an historical-artistic and cultural interest.