Rome Walls - A Brief History

The new wall circuit, eventually dub the aurelian walls, would grow to be 19 kilometers long and enclose an area of 13 point seven square kilometers. As originally built, the walls were three point five meters thickand eight meters high. Every hundred roman feet there was a 26 meter tall guard tower so that eventually there were over 350 of these fortified towers looming over the city. The whole circuit took just five years to complete. But even the record time rome went from being naive and open to jaded and shut tight was too long for a relian who died just before the last gaps were bridged.