They are located in the parish of Alqueidão da Serra, Vila de Porto de Mós, District of Leiria, Central Portugal.
The Alqueidão da Serra Roman Road was created to facilitate the flow of iron extracted in Viveiros da Figueirinha and Zambujal and goes to Tomar dos Bouceiros.
The route of the Roman Carreirancha road remains at the site to this day and this was the path that led Nuno Álvares Pereira to the Military Field on the eve of the Battle of Aljubarrota on August 14, 1385. The road is 100 m long and 4 m wide and was built between the 1st century BC and 1st century AD.
In the parish of Alqueidão da Serra, the route of the Roman Road of Carreirancha remains to this day and this was the path that led Nuno Álvares Pereira to the Military Field of S. Jorge on the eve of the Battle of Aljubarrota on August 14, 1385.
The road, 100 meters long and four meters wide, was built between the 1st century BC and 1st century AD. It was designed to facilitate the flow of iron exploited in Viveiros, Figueirinha and Zambujal. The path should have gone to Tomar, via Bouceiros, which in turn would connect to Paredes da Vitória, in Alcobaça, Collipo, in Leiria, and Conímbriga near Coimbra.
Along the verges we can see a peculiar landscape caused by the regularly spaced stone blocks and the support walls in the uneven terrain areas.
The road was used by different civilizations from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, but it is known that it was almost completely destroyed at the beginning of the first Republic and until recently there was another section about 50 meters from this road that ended in Cortinas, Porto de Mós.
The section of Roman road in Alqueidão da Serra linked to the old Roman road network gave rise to the territorial planning of the strategy over the regions it conquered.
The Roman presence in the regions currently defined by the Portuguese physical borders was characterized by the implementation of an administrative policy supported by two major cornerstones: the definition of political-administrative units, the layout of routes that were absolutely essential to the permanent connections between the main population clusters that were renewed according to the demands and changes produced in the center of the Empire.
The first beam was essentially based on the territorial definition of civitates, the most common Roman political-administrative units approximated in terms of the area covered by current districts centralized around a capital, to which other urban units and the respective rural population were subordinate.
A regime that required a well-structured road system essential for the movement of goods and people, particularly the entities responsible for maintaining order in the conquered territories, located in an area with a steep slope and with good visual control over the surrounding territory, the remaining section of Via Romana in Alqueidão da Serra will not be more than one hundred meters long and four meters wide, but some paths currently visible in the vicinity make up small sections of the original road.
The Roman road of Alqueidão da Serra was built between the 1st century BC. C. and I d. C. and the section in question belongs to the road that joined the towns of Scallabis (Santarém) and Collipo (Leiria), two important administrative centers in force during Roman Antiquity.
The objective of its launch would be more comprehensive, connecting Sellium (Tomar) to the port of Paredes de Vitória (in the municipality of Alcobaça) and Conimbriga (Coimbra).
Population clusters of a secondary nature emerged along these routes to the pre-existing population and relational reality.
A situation that can be easily proven in the above by the collection along the route of various Roman remains (namely ceramics) and slag resulting from metallurgical activities, the transport of iron ore intensely exploited in the region by the Romans.
The relevance of the layout then carried out would be confirmed over the following centuries, particularly in the middle of the Middle Ages, when some specific restorations were carried out.
The various sites are visible on small sections of Roman road but currently transformed into paths.
The route of the Roman Carreirancha road remains at the site to this day and this was the path that led Nuno Álvares Pereira to the Military Field on the eve of the Battle of Aljubarrota on August 14, 1385. The road is 100 m long and 4 m wide and was built between the 1st century BC and 1st century AD.
In the parish of Alqueidão da Serra, the route of the Roman Road of Carreirancha remains to this day and this was the path that led Nuno Álvares Pereira to the Military Field of S. Jorge on the eve of the Battle of Aljubarrota on August 14, 1385.
The road, 100 meters long and four meters wide, was built between the 1st century BC and 1st century AD. It was designed to facilitate the flow of iron exploited in Viveiros, Figueirinha and Zambujal. The path should have gone to Tomar, via Bouceiros, which in turn would connect to Paredes da Vitória, in Alcobaça, Collipo, in Leiria, and Conímbriga near Coimbra.
Along the verges we can see a peculiar landscape caused by the regularly spaced stone blocks and the support walls in the uneven terrain areas.
The road was used by different civilizations from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, but it is known that it was almost completely destroyed at the beginning of the first Republic and until recently there was another section about 50 meters from this road that ended in Cortinas, Porto de Mós.
The section of Roman road in Alqueidão da Serra linked to the old Roman road network gave rise to the territorial planning of the strategy over the regions it conquered.
The Roman presence in the regions currently defined by the Portuguese physical borders was characterized by the implementation of an administrative policy supported by two major cornerstones: the definition of political-administrative units, the layout of routes that were absolutely essential to the permanent connections between the main population clusters that were renewed according to the demands and changes produced in the center of the Empire.
The first beam was essentially based on the territorial definition of civitates, the most common Roman political-administrative units approximated in terms of the area covered by current districts centralized around a capital, to which other urban units and the respective rural population were subordinate.
A regime that required a well-structured road system essential for the movement of goods and people, particularly the entities responsible for maintaining order in the conquered territories, located in an area with a steep slope and with good visual control over the surrounding territory, the remaining section of Via Romana in Alqueidão da Serra will not be more than one hundred meters long and four meters wide, but some paths currently visible in the vicinity make up small sections of the original road.
The Roman road of Alqueidão da Serra was built between the 1st century BC. C. and I d. C. and the section in question belongs to the road that joined the towns of Scallabis (Santarém) and Collipo (Leiria), two important administrative centers in force during Roman Antiquity.
The objective of its launch would be more comprehensive, connecting Sellium (Tomar) to the port of Paredes de Vitória (in the municipality of Alcobaça) and Conimbriga (Coimbra).
Population clusters of a secondary nature emerged along these routes to the pre-existing population and relational reality.
A situation that can be easily proven in the above by the collection along the route of various Roman remains (namely ceramics) and slag resulting from metallurgical activities, the transport of iron ore intensely exploited in the region by the Romans.
The relevance of the layout then carried out would be confirmed over the following centuries, particularly in the middle of the Middle Ages, when some specific restorations were carried out.
The various sites are visible on small sections of Roman road but currently transformed into paths.
