A look at how the streets of Rome are paved.

All roads lead to Rome. And Rome still leads the world in roads. The streets of the ancient city were paved in huge, irregular blocks of stone known as basolato. Today only a very few segments of such paving survive: along the Via Appia, for example, or in parts of the Forum. But today, the streets of Rome are still paved in stone: most retain their sanpietrini (or sampietrini), small, square, regular cobbles. We watched how it was done. For the full article, see the Blue Guides on Substack.