The famous Roman highway, the Appian Way, measured some 5.5 meters (18 feet) in width and was paved with large lava blocks. The apostle Paul, while en route to Rome as a prisoner, traveled over this road, parts of which are still used today.—Acts 28:15, 16.
Paul, coming by boat from Troas, landed at Philippi’s seaport town, Neapolis, and traveled about 15 kilometers (9.5 miles) NW along the Via Egnatia, or Egnatian Way, the great commercial and military road from Asia to Rome, which ran through a mountain pass some 500 meters (1,600 feet) above sea level and down into the Philippian Plain.—Acts 16:11, 12.
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