Passages of Pompeii were cleverly designed even by todays standards. Permits, merchant crossings with toll tariffs observed by the naked eye today
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Gps Coordinates / 40.7499008,14.4871836
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PFXP+XV7 Pompei, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy
Many public buildings were constructed or refurbished and improved under the new order, new buildings included the Amphitheatre of Pompeii in 70 BC, the Forum Baths, and the Odeon.
Gps Coordinates / 40.7498283,14.4872141
These buildings raised the status of Pompeii as a cultural centre in the region as it outshone its neighbours in the number of places for entertainment which significantly enhanced the social and economic development of the city.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link 40.7496047 / Gps Link 40.7495562 / Gps Link 40.7496959
Gps Coordinates / 40.7496047,14.4872905 / 40.7495562,14.4870883 / 40.7496959,14.4875936
This Roman pedestrian crossing at Pompeii were designed to keep people from walking on mud, & letting carts & horses pass through.
Road passages were cleverly designed tariffs for outsiders
Link Location Gps / Gps Link 40.7494851 / Gps Link 40.7495779 / Gps Link 40.7495225
Gps Coordinates / 40.7494851,14.4873399 / 40.7495779,14.4872576 / 40.7495225,14.4870931
Pompei had these crossings built with a proprietary wheel width: visitors and merchants from elsewhere generally couldn’t bring their own carts or carriages into town because those wouldn’t fit through the slots in these crossings.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link 40.7495347 / Gps Link 40.7497741
Gps Coordinates / 40.7495347,14.4873113 / 40.7497741,14.4877374
Instead they had to rent a cart or carriage at the city entrance, one with a special wheel spacing that could fit through these crossings.
The city became an important passage for goods that arrived by sea and had to be sent toward Rome or Southern Italy along the nearby Appian Way.
Gps Coordinates / 40.7496453,14.4875799
Under Augustus, from about 30 BC, a major expansion in new public buildings, as in the rest of the empire, included the Eumachia Building, the Sanctuary of Augustus and the Macellum.
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