Roman Road of Agrippa (Saintes–Lyon)

Road of Agrippa (Saintes–Lyon)
Remains of a Roman road between Montignac-Charente and Saint-Cybardeaux (Charente).

The Roman road from Saintes to Lyon was part of one of the four main routes of the Agrippa road network, established from Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon), the capital of Roman Gaul. This network was developed beginning in 27 BCE under the direction of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a general and son-in-law of Emperor Augustus.

This road, listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana, connected Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon) to Mediolanum Santonum (modern-day Saintes) via Augustonemetum (Clermont-Ferrand) and Augustoritum (Limoges).

In the 19th-century classification of Roman roads in France by Konrad Miller, the segment between Saintes and Limoges is designated as VR 27.

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