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city planning. The cardo maximus, or most often the cardo, was the main or central north–south-oriented street. The cardo maximus was the "hinge" or axis...

called groma – of a city or castrum, the decumanus maximus crossed the perpendicular cardo maximus, the primary north–south road. The forum was normally...

usual central north–south road (cardo maximus) and central east–west route (decumanus maximus). However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the...

street or cardo and its side streets or decumani The two tetrapyla of Jerash, one at the intersection of northern-decumanus and cardo maximus and the other...

cardines and east–west decumani. The intersection of the cardo maximus and the decumanus maximus marked the origin of the city grid. Following these standard...

Roman city was underway. The Roman city was laid out along the main Cardo Maximus street, perpendicular to the Seine. It began at the heights of the Montagne...

cardines (north–south). The principal streets, the decumanus maximus and cardo maximus, intersected at or close to the forum, around which the most important...

street. The Cardo Maximus connected the Roman Forum to a large complex, that was the center of the old Roman city. The Decumanus Maximus ran parallel...

Cardo Maximus and the Decumanus Maximus. The streets were paved with large irregular slabs of slate, with the sewers flowing beneath them. The Cardo Maximus...

were laid out, including the split Cardo Maximus and the continuous Decumanus Maximius. The route the Cardo Maximus followed is now: South Gates; The short...

2 kilometres (1.2 mi), made up the city's north-south axis, or the cardo maximus. The monumental colonnade is among the longest and most famous in the...

such cases, the grid was traced by extending the urban cardo maximus and the decumanus maximus through the gates of the city into the surrounding agricultural...

Theatre, one turns left into the second important street, the Cardo Maximus. The Cardo leads the visitor to the Tiberia Platea and Central Church with...

encircled by a wall, and followed an orthogonal plan, with the cardo maximus and decumanus maximus crossing at the forum. An aqueduct existed, the remains of...

surviving and most monumental of the Etruscan city gates it opens onto the cardo maximus of the city, corresponding to the modern Ulisse Rocchi Road. The arch...

Ancient Roman theatre A vault in the amphitheatre Domus of the Birds The Cardo Maximus The Exedra building Mosaic in the Exedra Romanization of Hispania Appian...

intersection of Cardo Maximus and Decumanus Maximus streets two in Jerash (Jordan): one at the intersection of northern-decumanus and cardo maximus and the other...

include Roman baths, shops, housing complexes, and part of the cardo maximus and decumanus maximus. Its museum holds a collection of artifacts from its own...

remain. It is situated in the Ulus quarter. The Roman Road of Ankara or Cardo Maximus was found in 1995 by Turkish archeologist Cevdet Bayburtluoğlu. It is...

known as the Cardo Maximus, was a central thoroughfare in the ancient city, reflecting the typical Roman city planning. The term "Cardo" itself is derived...