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Narrated by The Historian 32 km · about 49 min · 10 stories

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.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Roma, Rome

    Brioni and the Peacock Revolution

  2. 2
    Roma, Rome

    Engineering the Roman Aqueducts

  3. 3
    Roma, Rome

    The Ancient Site of Antemnae

  4. 4
    Roma, Rome

    The Renaissance Villa d’Este Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  5. 5
    Roma, Rome

    The Renaissance Villa d’Este Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  6. 6
    Roma, Rome

    The Renaissance Villa d’Este Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  7. 7
    Roma, Rome

    The Tiburtine Sibyl's Prophecies

  8. 8
    Roma, Rome

    Hadrian's Imperial Palace Complex

  9. 9
    Tivoli, Rome

    Aniene River Industrial Power

  10. 10
    Tivoli, Rome

    The Engineering of Aqua Virgo

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Where the stories come from

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.