Via Appia
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Via Appia, the Appian Way, is one of the earliest roads built in the Roman Republic and connects Rome to Brindisi. It became a cultural in 2024.
UnderstandIt is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy.
GoAppia longarum regina viarum "Appia, the queen of the long roads"
Go nextAncient travellers used to ferry across the Adriatic from Brindisium to Dyrrhachium (modern Durrës), to follow the Via Egnatia towards the second imperial capital, Constantinople.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Via Appia" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo: Via Appia map.jpg, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons