Sentence examples for ancient thoroughfares from inspiring English sources

The ancient thoroughfares were cut into the tufo – the volcanic rock common in south and central Italy – connecting settlements, religious sites and necropolises.

Being a practical man of the world, Watkins decided that these alignments represented ancient thoroughfares, routes along which goods such as salt, and craftsmen like flint knappers, traversed the countryside.

Following the Fire, the thoroughfares of Queen Street and King Street were newly laid out, cutting across more ancient thoroughfares in the City, creating a new route up from the Thames to the Guildhall; they were the only notable new streets following the fire's destruction of much of the City.

Samurai walked the ancient thoroughfare for more than 200 years.

For the best view of this ancient thoroughfare, board a boat at Piazzale Roma (2) and get off at San Marco (3) (or vice versa).

King's Highway, also called Via Nova Traiana, ancient thoroughfare that connected Syria and the Gulf of Aqaba by way of what is now Jordan.

"What is commonly thought of as Woodbury, the strip along Route 6, was an ancient thoroughfare," said Richard W. Crane, First Selectman of the Town of Woodbury.

The village's ancient thoroughfare is now a mere footpath across fields, with the nearest road 400 yards away (a wheelbarrow is provided to ferry your luggage), so if you don't feel cut off from civilisation here, there's probably no hope for you.

Recording not the hallowed academic haven of dreaming spires, but the more recent and fractious multicultural city, he decides that this less venerated England is best seen on Cowley Road, an ancient thoroughfare that once led pilgrims from the colleges to a medieval healing well, and is now home to immigrants from five continents.

The centerpiece of the new spot, named Appia after the ancient Roman thoroughfare, is a big, open-flame rotisserie, where they cook porchetta, spit-roasted pork, as well as chicken and duck.

But we were papering over cracks, and limping over the Hill of Duchery on the 'Fungle Road', an ancient drovers' thoroughfare connecting Deeside with Glen Esk in Aberdeenshire, the bike seized again.