[Ehi-vestlus] ntance with modern Italian towns, th

[Brindisi Halgren <untried AT harmonieskpb.be>]

52. In the towns just noted we can trace many, though not all, of the
original house-blocks. Usually the blocks are square or nearly so, as
at Turin, Verona, Pavia, Piacenza, Florence, Lucca.

Less often they are long and
even narrow rectangles,
as at Modena, and Sorrento,

and above all Naples, and as usual it is not easy to understand the
reason for the difference (p. 80). _Turin_ (fig. 15). Of all the
examples of Roman town-planning known to us in Italy, Turin is by far
the most famous.[71]
Here the streets have survived almost intact, and excavations have
confirmed the truth of the survival by
revealing both the ancient road-metalling and the ancient town-walls
and gates. Turin, Augusta Taurinorum, began about 28 B.C. as a
'colonia'
planted by Augustus. Its walls enclosed
an oblong of about 745 x 695 metres (127 acres).[72] The sides are
represented (1) on the north by the Via Giulio, in the western part of
which the southern edge of the street actually coincides with the line
o

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