INTAXI APP
The cities of Rome and Milan
The cities of Milan and Rome
The cities of Milan and Rome were, through Radiotaxi 02.8585 and Pronto cab 06.6645 the foundation of the InTAXI App, the largest and most important Taxi Application operating in Italy.
Even in ancient times, the history linking Milan to Rome stemmed from a strategic opportunity, mainly related to the trade of the time.
It was because of its location in the heart of the Po Valley, a crossroads of communication routes, and because of its proximity to those "Alpes tremendae" beyond which the menacing Barbarian invaders were stationed that from here, more than from anywhere else, they could be better controlled.
The Milan of today-that is, the Mediolanum of the Romans-certainly does not display the monumental splendor of the Eternal City, nor the abundance of Roman-era archaeological finds of other cities in northern Italy, such as Verona, Aosta, or the closer Brescia. What helped make it one of the main seats of imperial power in the West was when Maximian, co-emperor of the West under Diocletian, decided to establish his residence there, thus contributing to its becoming an important political and administrative center.
Maximian's choice to reside in Mediolanum, contributed significantly to the city's fortunes and its function in the imperial context, a function that the city managed to maintain (albeit in the dramatic evolution of events) it maintained for more than a century (until 402 AD), in condominium with Germanica Augusta Trevirorum.
Over the centuries, the value of this city had to grow in size and importance. From a village founded by the Celts five hundred years before the birth of Christ, after its conquest by Rome it would assume the rank of a Latin colony. From the Caesarian age onward the "mediolanensi" became, like all the inhabitants of northern Italy, "cives romani" to all intents and purposes, and Mediolanum became municipium, that is, city.
Today, as then, the axis that runs along the peninsula is indispensable to that trade turned into businnes for which, the air transportation that connects us to a 'Europe no longer populated by invading Barbarians but united by both a Parliament and a single currency and the road and rail connections that are to unite the various cities.
What are today's modern cabs were at that time horse-drawn vehicles such as the "cisivm," a two-wheeled, spoked cart, which was rented or with the help of a driver, exclusively for city routes, while the sturdier two- or four-wheeled full wagons were used for long routes and for transporting heavier loads. Another model was the "raeda": four-wheeled, pulled by horses but also oxen, it was perhaps the most common wagon, comparable to our minibuses.
Two thousand years later, modern needs have necessitated a widespread presence of cabs, first linked to a local radio cab and then, over the past decade, all creating a network united by a single App.
Out of all this, from an idea that initially served to unite Milan and Rome, InTaxi came to life, over fifty connected cities throughout Italy and a true pride of that "made in Italy" that began in the very period referred to.
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