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 ...

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.

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 ...

below the street level of contemporary Rome. Last July, a team of archaeologists began a hunt for the lost starting point of the Via Appia by excavating a site in front of a row of ancient shops ...