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All aboard! Quarries and transport in Roman Istria

The great need for stone as a building material in Roman Istria is attested by a large number of quarries along the Istrian coast, and several in the interior. The more or less high-quality limestone from these quarries could have been used for the building of many villae rusticae scattered across the peninsula, or perhaps even for further distribution. In that regard, Roman Istria was connected by a system of roads, the precise heading of which we are today still uncertain. The road connecting Aquilea and Pola was called Via Flavia, and several authors suggest that a road of the same name connected Pola to Tarsatica. Nevertheless, a much cheaper system of transportation was by sea or river, and the Istrian coast is rich with many bays or coves that could have been useful to Roman sailors as safe havens or trading ports.

Istria, Antiquity, stone, quarries, roads, holloways, ports

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