page_title: Louisiana road (Croatia)
hierarchical_section_title: Louisiana road (Croatia)
caption_attribution_description: Hrvatski: Milja na Lujzijani kod mjesta Nadvučnik. Deutsch: XII Meilen von Fiume - VI Meilen von Carlstadt - 1333 11/12 Schuh über dem Meer; eine österreichische Meile misst 7'586 Meter
context_page_description: The Louisiana road is a roadway in Croatia, built between 1803 and 1812 by an association of noble families and designed by Josef Philipp Vukassovich. The road was finished by the French Empire. It is named after Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise.
  It linked Rijeka with Karlovac through Grobničko polje, Kamenjak, Gornje Jelenje, Lokve, Delnice, Skrad, Stubica, Severin na Kupi, and Netretić. The length of the Louisiana road was 18 Austrian miles. It was about 8 m wide. It was the shortest route between Rijeka and Karlovac, and was one of the most modern roads in the empire. With the building of the Lujzijana, the Karolina road became less important.
context_section_description: The Louisiana road (Croatian: Lujzijana, Lujzinska cesta) is a roadway in Croatia, built between 1803 and 1812 by an association of noble families (Lichtenstein, Dietrichstein, Esterházy, Harrach, Batthyány, Anna Maria Erdődy) and designed by Josef Philipp Vukassovich. The road was finished by the French Empire. It is named after Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise.
  It linked Rijeka with Karlovac through Grobničko polje, Kamenjak, Gornje Jelenje, Lokve, Delnice, Skrad, Stubica, Severin na Kupi, and Netretić. The length of the Louisiana road was 18 Austrian miles (1 mile = 7.585 km). It was about 8 m wide (26 Wiener Fuß). It was the shortest route between Rijeka and Karlovac, and was one of the most modern roads in the empire. With the building of the Lujzijana, the Karolina road became less important.
caption: A milestone on Lujzijana near the village of Nadvučnik
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