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Roads of faith: itineraries of Tuscan communities

Discover the roads travelled by pilgrims and merchants up until the Middle Ages

Since the Early Middle Ages, the road network has favoured churches as a reference point in the administrative and ecclesiastical organization of the local area. Pilgrims walked ridgeways and coastal paths (often newer than Roman roads), dirt tracks (unusable by carriages for many months of the year), lacking even the most basic of infrastructure, without bridges but with fords, which followed irrational routes, hindered by physical obstacles, roads whose maintenance was up to local residents personally invested in their upkeep.

Along these routes, local communities played a fundamental role, which were concentrated around churches, bona fide reference points for wayfarers. Alongside the places of worship stood hospices and places to eat and rest, often home to priceless works of art. These parish churches became fundamental hubs in the local landscape, which in turn seemed to be organized around their very architecture.

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