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Via Appia

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Via Appia: see Appian Way Appian Way , Lat. Via Appia, most famous of the Roman roads, built (312 B.C.) under Appius Claudius Caecus. It connected Rome with Capua and was later extended to Beneventum (now Benevento), Tarentum (Taranto), and Brundisium (Brindisi).
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; Roman roads Roman roads, ancient system of highways linking Rome with its most distant provinces. The roads often ran in a straight line, regardless of obstacles, and were efficiently constructed, generally in four layers of materials; the uppermost layer was a pavement of flat,
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This temporary structure is set inside the Parco dell'Appia Antica, an authentic archaeological park that is open to the public, situated between Via Appia Antica and Via Appia Nuova.
After all, the few hundred yards of Wales' premier highway is not exactly Rome's Via Appia or the Champes Elysee of Paris or even London's Mall.
In 312 BC, they started to pave the Via Appia from Rome to Southern Italy to improve links with Greece.
 
 
 
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