From Aquileia to Singidunum - The RecRoad Project

[KinkyOne]

Italian archaeologist Sara Zanni started a project (at Montaigne University in Bordeaux) of reconstructing old Roman route that connected Venetieet Histrie with Pannonia Superior. To be more exact nowadays Aquileia in NE Italy and Belgrade (capital of Serbia). She already walked three Caminos to SdC and is now going to start walking that route which goes from Italy through Slovenia and Croatia to Serbia on September 2nd and planning to finish it in 27 days (530km). That route was first mentioned in 333 AD by anonymous pilgrim from Bordeaux on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem in a document called Itinerarium Burdigalense which is the oldest document about pilgrimage to Holy Land.

Official link: https://reconstructingromanroads.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/the-recroad-project/
Slovenian link to interview with some photos: http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/drugo/po-sledeh-stare-rimske-ceste-pes-od-ogleja-do-beograda/426919

 

[nycwalking]

Oh, to be a European who can walk pilgrimages from their doorfront. Thanks for post.

 

[KinkyOne]

Oh, to be a European who can walk pilgrimages from their doorfront. Thanks for post.

Should search for your European ancestors maybe?

 

[Pelegrin]

So, it's clear that the Celts also settled in Serbia (I din´t know it)
In word Singidunum, dunum means Castle.
There are a lot of cities with Dun included in their names in Western Europe: Dundalk, Dundee, Dunquerque, Dumbria....
I wonder if in year 250 BC people could travel from Britain to Singidunum and could ask for basic things in their Celtic language as they can do nowadays using English language

 

[KinkyOne]

So, it's clear that the Celts also settled in Serbia (I din´t know it)
In word Singidunum, dunum means Castle.
There are a lot of cities with Dun included in their names in Western Europe: Dundalk, Dundee, Dunquerque, Dumbria....
I wonder if in year 250 BC people could travel from Britain to Singidunum and could ask for basic things in their Celtic language as they can do nowadays using English language

Exactly, same as London (Lundun). Dun(on) meaning settlement/fence/fortress and for Singi there are two theories: a) ring (that would mean round fortress which Belgrade has) and b) name of the tribe that settled the place before Scordisci tribe which already contained different Celt tribes. Celts were all over Balkans, very strong culture.