Samland to Carnuntum
~ Saturday, September 14, 2019 ~
A map of the amber route shows something that does not look like a road. It looks like a river system — which is, in essence, what it was. The route followed water: north to south along the Vistula, across the Silesian lowlands, through the single gap in the mountain chain that separates the North European Plain from the Danube basin, and then south along the Morava river to its mouth at the Danube. From there, east along the river to the great legionary fortress at Carnuntum. The route is roughly two thousand kilometres. The terrain determines nearly all of it.