The main road that had been connecting Italy and Pannonia ever since the antiquity crossed the south-eastern Alps by way of the Atrans-Trojanapass. Towards the end of the Middle-Ages the lords of the Kamnik territory established the coercion so that another, longer road leading through the town of Kamnik had to be used. In the first quarter of the 16th century the shorter road was reopened. Documents of the provincial diet from 1534 are dealing with the economic disaster which was brought upon the town as a result of this measure. A comparison between the taxes to be paid at various times by the inhabitants of Ljubljana and Kamnik illustrates the decline of the latter.