[Ancient Town-Planning by F. Haverfield]@TWC D-Link bookAncient Town-Planning CHAPTER VII 29/44
88). [Illustration: FIG.18.
LUCCA. (The streets which preserve Roman lines are marked in black.)] Whether there were other 'insulae' besides the fifteen is doubtful.
On the east there were certainly none: the two narrow parallel streets at the east end of the area just described are obviously due to a growth of houses along the line of the original east wall.
The other limits are more obscure.
Probably the north and west walls stood a little outside of the Via Galli Tassi (once S.Pellegrino) and the Via S. Giorgio, but there may well have been a row of insulae, now obliterated, south of the Via del Battistero.
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