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# If air links with Europe are this difficult, perhaps it is time to turn to the routes of Ancient Rome?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/raz-uzh-aviasoobshchenie-s-evropoi-tak-zatrudneno-mozhet-pora-pribegnut-k-marshrutam-vremen-drevnego-rima/
- Published: 2022-08-09T09:14:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:38:09.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Geography, Maps, Observations, Humour

If air links with Europe are this difficult, perhaps it is time to turn to the routes of Ancient Rome? A website has appeared with an interactive map on which you can plan a journey along roads laid down 2,000 years ago.

Any journey in the days of the Roman Empire was no small feat and took weeks or months, although at the height of its power the length of its roads ran from 80 to 300 thousand kilometres.

The visualisation [Omnes Viae](https://www.omnesviae.org/?ref=theparnassian.com) includes only Roman roads that genuinely existed and allows you to calculate how long a journey between any two points on the map would have taken, the map being based on the most accurate Roman map ever found, the Tabula Peutingeriana. You can see in detail every one of your stops, every village, town and river you will have to cross (bear in mind that bridges were not nearly as numerous or accessible as they are today).

Tracing the route between Teleda in present-day Azerbaijan and Lvteci /Lutetia Parisorum, that is, Paris, we arrive at 2,814 miles and 188 days. Figures beyond imagining. The road from Istanbul to Rome will take 87 days.