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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site

A man jogs on the ancient Appian Way in Rome as dawn breaks behind mature trees that line the pathway
The first section of the highway was built in 312 BC by the Roman statesman Appius Claudius Caecus. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Italy’s Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the earliest and most important road built by the ancient Romans, has been named a Unesco world heritage site, making Italy the country with the world’s highest number of locations on the coveted list.

Known as the Regina Viarum, or Queen of Roads, it connected Rome with the port of Brindisi in the south and marked a revolution in the construction of roads.

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