Plentiful evidence shows that even in Italy and even in towns where men have dwelt without a break since Roman days, the Roman streets, and with them the Roman town-plans, have far oftener vanished than endured.

Rome herself, the Eternal City, uses hardly one street to-day which was used in the Roman Empire.

Some few Italian towns, described in detail above, have a better claim to be called 'eternal'; half a dozen in northern Italy retain their ancient streets in singular perfection.

Yet even there cities like Padua and Mantua, Genoa and Pisa, have lost the signs of their older fashion.
So, too, in the provinces.

In the Danubian lands only one town can even be supposed to preserve a few of its Roman streets.