Via Appia Travel Guide ā Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Roman highway from Rome, Italy, to Brundisium 312 BC
About Via Appia
It is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. The road is named afterAppius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during theSamnite Wars. The Via Appia Antica is considered to be the "longest museum in the world". For 18 km, from thešPorta Capenaat the Circus Maximus tošFrattocchie, the oldest Roman consular road, partly still with its ancient pavement, has been preserved. Then it joins the Via Appia Nuova to run as a normal state road for another 560 km to the southern Italian port of Brindisi. While the Appian Way throughLazioandCampaniahas been kept in use since Roman times; the eastern section fell into ob
Via Appia Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 6 sections including: