The importance of the Lamonese territory for Rome during the imperial period is attested by the fact that the Via Claudia Augusta Altinate, the great military artery commissioned in 15 BC by the Roman general Drusus Major, and completed 60 years later by his son, Emperor Claudius, passed through this territory.
With its 350 Roman miles (about 520 km today) this road had a fundamental political and strategic importance. Crossing the Alps, it connected the Municipium of Altinum, on the Adriatic Sea, to Augusta Vindelicum, today's Augusta.
2,000 years later, its tracing is not known with any certainty. Surely it was a link between different territories and traditions; also for this reason today it is a symbol of dialogue and a link between the cultures of the three nations - Germany, Austria and Italy - that it crosses.
