The Via Cassia, from Canterbury to Rome is a historical itinerary, a highway covered in the past by thousands of pilgrims traveling to Rome. It was especially at the beginning of the second millennium that Europe went through a multitude of souls in search of the Lost Heavenly Home. " This route bears witness to the importance of pilgrimage in medieval times
was to travel mostly on foot (for penitential reasons) with a distance of 20-25 kilometers per day, and was a fundamentally devotion: the pilgrimage to the Holy Places of Christian religion. It is known that three were poles of attraction for humanity in this way: first, Rome, site of the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul, Santiago de Compostela, where the apostle St. James had chosen to rest in peace in the Holy Land and of course Jerusalem. The pilgrim did not travel alone but in groups and wore the insignia of the pilgrimage (the shell for Santiago de Compostela, the cross of Jerusalem, the key to St. Peter's in Rome). Along these routes of pilgrimage routes were at the same time intense trading and that they were covered by the armies in their movements. .
. The ViaFrancigena: an ancient road to build the future of Europe
When it comes to ViaFrancigena refers to the historic route depending on the itinerary of Sigerico, archbishop of Canterbury, in 990 in his return journey from Rome where the pope had received the pallium Archbishop writes a brief guide to travel where I listed 80 stages (48 in Italy and the rest by the passage of the Gran San Bernardo to the English Channel) . Leaving the Eternal City, Sigerico passing Viterbo, enter into Tuscany at Radicofani, and Siena, crossed the Arno in front of Fucecchio back to Lucca, and from there he passed Pontremoli, reaches the Cisa pass to continue to Fornovo and Bicester. Forded the Po near Piacenza, arriving on the shore of Lodi Court in St. Andrew, making a stop in Santa Cristina, Pavia and Tromello. From here comes in Vercelli, continuing Santhià, Aosta Italy, and finally leaves through the mountain pass of the Great Saint Bernard live in Canterbury. It must be said that the ViaFrancigena is to be understood not as a single track, but just like a road system, a set of branching paths in time and space. Today, the stretch of the route is mainly Francigena flows from Canterbury to Rome important destination and center of Christianity of the medieval pilgrimage (along with Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela). .
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