The Spanish Road (Italian cammino degli spagnoli, French chemin des Espagnols) was the name given to the developed land route from the Spanish possession in northern Italy (Duchy of Milan) over the Western Alps to the Netherlands, with fortified stretches and victualing stations (stages). During the so-called Eighty Years’ War with the States-General of the Netherlands between 1567 and 1620, it brought Spanish money and soldiers (a total of about 120,000 troops) to the provinces of the southern Netherlands that had remained allied with Spain in the Union of Arras 1579 (Dutch …