 By sea, the port of "Aquae Gradatae", modern Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia was developed.On land, Aquileia was the starting-point of several important roads leading outside Italy to the north-eastern portion of the empire — the road ("Via Iulia Augusta") by "Iulium Carnicum" to Veldidena (mod.Wilten, near Innsbruck), from which branched off the road into Noricum, leading by Virunum (Klagenfurt) to Laurieum (Lorch) on the Danube, the road leading via Emona into Pannonia and to Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica), the road to Tarsatica (near Fiume, now Rijeka) and Siscia (Sisak), and the road to Tergeste (Trieste) and the Istrian coast.