The ViaFrancigena
Via Francigena, also called the Via Romea, was the road from Rome, the papal city, brought in central-western area.
Already the Lombards in the seventh century were using this route (which runs for some distance along the ancient Via Cassia), to travel throughout Italy, but over time it became clear its function of being Communication in Central and West with the center of Christianity, Rome, and then southwards, with Jerusalem.
The reconstruction of the route of the Via Francigena is based on the document Sigerico Archbishop of Canterbury, who went to Rome in 994, and during the trip return, he compiled a diary with all the stages along the affected route (from Rome to Calais in 79 days, more than 1600 km).
The Council of Europe said the ViaFrancigena "European Cultural Route", as the path of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
The original route Francigena:
Canterbury, Dover e attraverso la Manica a Calais, Bruay, Arras, Reims, Chalons sur Marne, Bar sur Aube, Besancon, Pontarlier, Lausanne, past the Great St. Bernard Pass to Aosta, Ivrea, Vercelli, Pavia, (through the Valley of Staffora until Brallo of Pregola), Piacenza, Parma, Fornovo of Taro, Pontremoli, Batesville, Luni, Lucca, San Gimignano, Siena, San Quirico d'Orcia, Viterbo, Sutri, then off to Rome and Brindisi to embark for Jerusalem in increments of no more than 25 miles a day.
This is the most classic routes connected to the history of medieval roads, or the Francigena, also called Romea (either because the pilgrims were called 'Romeo is to mean the' final destination, or Rome).
Why Canterbury? Why Rome? This veritable highway was inaugurated by the European avant la lettre Sigerico, Archbishop of Canterbury, who went in 994 to Rome to venerate the place of martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul, founders and organizers of the Church of Christian and ecclesial communities receive from the endowment Pope
Sigerico took two months to cover nearly 1600 km and during the way back he noted the 80 stages on the path his diary, since then 'guide' for all the pilgrims and travelers on the continent
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Along the streets, on which the various governments that succeeded the Roman Empire, very little maintenance work performed, and then ended early signs increasingly frequent use of wheeled vehicles, and wherever they arise continuously hostels and inns, guesthouses, hermitages and abbeys .
This path, however, was exposed by the presence of bandits and the intense traffic that attracted them, from the displacement of nobles, kings and armies, and is easy to say that the importance of this route goes far beyond the pilgrimage takes place here simply medieval life, understood in its purest sense .
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