Donnas Arch via Gaul

The Roman road of Gaul, was built to connect Rome to the Rhone Valley.
In the Donnas section it possesses one of its most characteristic and spectacular points: the Arch Via Gaul.
It is carved into the living rock for a length of 221 meters.

At this place, in ancient times, the rocky promontory plunged directly into the waters of the Dora River.
The Romans met an extraordinary challenge of nature by carving a living rock, on which they were able to create perfectly vertical walls and carve out the roadbed.

Exciting and unusual, here the Via delle Gallie reveals the height of its splendor: the Via Gallia Arch.
Offering the spectacle of a 4-meter-wide, 4-meter-high and nearly 3-meter-thick archway that eloquently demonstrates the amount of rock removed.
This shows all the sophistication of a road technique that has never been equaled until modern viaducts and tunnels.