Via Clodia

[1] Situated between the Via Cassia and the Via Aurelia, it is different from them notably in that the latter was designed primarily for military long-haul, irrespective of settlements they met, but the Via Clodia was of short-range, intended for commercial traffic with the colonies in Etruscan lands.

The existing road was probably used as a way of penetration and conquest of Etruria by the Roman army begun in 310 BC.

The stretch between Bracciano and Oriolo Romano continues a straight line whose paving stones are found here and there, often uprooted.

Its course, for the first 11 miles, was the same as that of the Via Cassia; it then diverged in a northwest direction and ran on the west side of the Lacus Sabatinus, past Forum Clodii and Blera.

[3] The Via Clodia Nova extension was constructed in 183 BC by the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

The ancient Roman roads to the northwest. In blue the original trace of the Via Aurelia , in red the Via Cassia , in mauve the Via Clodia .
The Via Clodia at Saturnia near to Porta Romana
Tabula Peutingeriana: Part IV. Here the branch Pisa-Luni is not yet linked.