For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

Well, the oldest road in the world certainly does. While there are of course other older known routes (Giza, the incense trade route, etc.), the Via Appia in Italy is the only one still visible today.

The Via Appia continued to be used throughout the centuries. It remains an access route to rural villages. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, the Church of Rome relied on it to spread Christianity ...

ON the via Appia Antica, beyond the Aurelian walls, sits the ancient basilica of St Sebastian Outside the Walls. It is one of ...

Basta. Loving Rome means getting out of the city, so we’re lucky the Romans built amazing streets crossing the country. The oldest and longest is the Via Appia Antica, and you need to travel ...

Now an Italian government project is under way to transform the Appian Way (Via Appia) into a pilgrimage route from buzzing Rome to nautical Brindisi, a quiet city on the heel of Italy’s boot.

They're replicas – the originals sit in the museum of Palazzo Massimo delle Terme in central Rome. And they're nothing special, really – walk along the Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way ...

First step on the path to enhancing the Via Appia. Almost a year after the prestigious UNESCO recognition obtained in July in ...