The urban layout of the Roman cities was based on a bundle of parallel roads east-west, the Decumano and another beam perpendicular intersected at right angles, the Cardo oriented north-south.
In Vicenza they remain in examples of this type of plant the Roman:
- Decumano, current palladium, the main street of the ancient Roman city.
- Cardo at Contrà porto and Contrà del Monte (I guess) and course fogazzaro (guess II)
The reconstruction of urban Vicetia had to take into account trim existing, so this scheme was suitable and underwent changes: the intersections between decumani cardines and were not in fact drawn orthogonally but oblique.The Decumanus Maximus – which roughly corresponds to the current course palladium was the city section of the Via Postumia east, after passing the Astico with a bridge, went to Aquileia, while to the west, past the door of the walls ( later called Porta Feliciana and then Castle Gate) continued to Verona.Cardo Maximus, generally found in the street that passed under the Basilicata, continued to Contrà Porti and Contra del Monte to Ponte Pusterla, but at that time did not exist because there was a lake, then we assume a second position where they are at Corso Fogazzaro You found evidence of a stretch of Roman road, left in polygonal trachyte paving stones, with traces of the passage of wagons, visible near the church of San Lorenzo. This is because the CARDO and DECUMANO brought to cities almost always a straight line.