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# A road older than the wall, a wall older than the trees
- URL: https://www.readingrome.com/a-road-older-than-the-wall-a-wall-older-than-the-trees/
- Published: 2026-09-30T19:54:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-30T19:54:45.000Z
- Author: Maria Chugrova

The street predates the aqueduct by 350 years — Via Aurelia was laid down in 241 BC, one of Rome's oldest consular roads, running all the way to Pisa. The arches came later: Trajan's aqueduct, 109 AD, carrying water 40 kilometers from Lake Bracciano, later restored by a pope and renamed for him too. Two empires' worth of infrastructure, and the pines in front of it are the newest thing in the frame by two thousand years.

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