Infrastruttura di-visione. La Via Iulia Augusta e il palinsesto-paesaggio di Aquileia

Walking along Aquileia we can discover its different kinds of landscape with archaeological and agricultural characters. The urban morphology derives from the Roman centuriation; the town and the area surrounding it still have traces of that period. The cardo maximus has been identified with the Via Iulia Augusta, that today splits the ancient Forum; some scholars suggest to modify the road system and reunite the two parts of the Forum. But in its history, it has not always been unified as in the Roman period. The purpose of this essay is to accept the current configuration of the important Roman road as the latest, equally important layer of landscape’s stratification. Via Iulia Augusta still has an important potentiality; it could reconnect the fragments of the urban fabric with archaeological remains and water- and agricultural features. The Roman road could have the leading part in a project of ‘translation’ and ‘tale’ of historic landscape, going beyond the conflicts between preservation and spatial planning.