Via Appia Antica has been named a Unesco world heritage site

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

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