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Into the Sabine hills on the water: the aqueducts that made Rome possible, Hadrian's sprawling palace complex, the Villa d'Este's five hundred fountains — powered by gravity alone — and the Tiburtine Sibyl, whose prophecies outlived the empire that consulted her.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.