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Via Appia

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Via Appia: see Appian Way Appian Way (ăp`ēən), Lat. Via Appia, most famous of the Roman roads , built (312 B.C.) under Appius Claudius Caecus.
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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.
The town was Fondi, where in the thirteenth century Thomas Aquinas had lived and taught and where, turning off the ancient Via Appia into the Aurunci Mountains on a late May afternoon, I for the first time came under German fire.
 
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