Resumen de "Strade Franche": Tra Piemonte orientale e liguria in età moderna
"Free Roads" between Early Modern eastern Piedmont and Liguria Circulation of goods on specific sections of major communication routes in early modern eastern Piedmont, commonly known as "free roads", enjoyed privileges of exemption from customs duties. usually, such privileges arose as a result of interaction among local lordships or communities before being recognized, for political or economic reasons, y the states whose changing borders met in the region between the 16th and 18th centuries. "Free roads"were typically located in areas characterized by persistent jurisdictional fragmentation and competion as well as scatteres settlement. In this geopolitical context,which favoured the creation of changing route alternatives, they often amounted to form of localized social practice rather than of physical infrastructure
