Medieval roads and tracks

trade routes through Asia connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea

transportation system of the Inca empire

network of caravan paths winding through the mountains of Southwest China and Tibet

ancient road

medieval road in the Holy Roman Empire

Ancient trail in Peru

main road of Constantinople

road

thumb|right|The Westphalian Hellweg (marked red) at Dortmund in 1610, map by Detmar Muhler In the Middle Ages, Hellweg was the official and common name given to main travelling routes in Germany. Their breadth was decreed as an unimpeded passageway a lance's width, about three metres, which the landholders, through which the Hellweg passed, were required to maintain.

or Reichsstraße, a major European route in medieval times that was under the imperial or royal ban