Via Augusta
Roman road · Girona
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This stretch of paved road is part of a secondary route built in the 1st century AD, branching off the Via Augusta from Empúries. It crossed the Ter near Colomers before running through Foixà, Rupià and Corçà toward La Bisbal and Palamós. A milestone unearthed along the road, now kept in the church square, confirmed its Roman origin. About 600 metres of the original paving survive in good condition.
This roughly 600-metre stretch is one of the best-preserved sections of Roman road anywhere in the Empordà, still walkable in something close to its original state. It was a secondary branch off the main Via Augusta network, built in the 1st century AD and most likely leaving the principal road near the Roman posting stations of Cinniana or Ceruiana, north of the Ter. From there it crossed the river at Colomers and continued through Foixà, Rupià and Corçà toward La Bisbal, reaching the coast at Palamós. A second, shorter fragment of the same road survives further east at Les Arces and may have linked toward Empúries.
What you see
Where the paving survives, the road narrows into a sunken track pinned between two stone retaining walls, the ancient stone worn smooth and faintly polished by two thousand years of passage.
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