Via Appia. <em>Regina Viarum</em>

Overview

More than 800 kilometres long, the Via Appia is the oldest and most important of the great roads built by the Ancient Romans. Constructed and developed from 312 BCE to the 4th century CE, it was originally conceived as a strategic road for military conquest, advancing towards the East and Asia Minor. The Via Appia later enabled the cities it connected to grow and new settlements emerged, facilitating agricultural production and trade. This property, composed of 19 component parts, is a fully developed ensemble of engineering works, illustrating the advanced technical skill of Roman engineers in the construction of roads, civil engineering projects, infrastructure and sweeping land reclamation works, as well as a vast series of monumental structures including, for example, triumphal arches, baths, amphitheatres and basilicas, aqueducts, canals, bridges, and public fountains.

Selection Criteria

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Components(20 locations)

• •, ref: 1708-003, latitude: 41.6718, longitude: 12.7273055556}, {name:1708-004
• •Tarentum1708-015
• •Brundisium1708-017
• •Ancient Capua1708-011
• •The Via Appia in Fundi1708-006
• •The Via Appia at the Itri Pass1708-007
• •The Via Appia across Alban Hills1708-002
• •Beneventum and the Arch of Trajan1708-012
• •Minturnae and the Garigliano crossing1708-009
• •The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae1708-008
• •The Via Appia from Mesochorum to Scamnum1708-016
• •The Appia Traiana from Aecae to Herdonia1708-019
• •The Via Appia in the upper Bradano Valley1708-014
• •Tarracina and the crossing of the Lautulae Pass1708-005
• •The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus Sarclanus1708-010
• •The Appia Traiana from Beneventum to Aequum Tuticum1708-018
• •The Appia Traiana at Canusium and the Ofanto course1708-020
• •The Via Appia in Rome, from the 1st to the 13th mile1708-001
• •The Via Appia on the route from Beneventum to Aeclanum1708-013
• •The Appia Traiana along the Adriatic coast, through Egnatia1708-021

Details

Countries

Italy

ISO Codes

IT

Area

4,950.84 ha

Coordinates

41.2927, 13.2627