appia antica and catacombs

Let’s have a trip just a bit outside the city in the Appian way, the most important consular road from Rome to Greece, the Regina Viarum. Today a fascinating archeological park where romans in ancient times made huge thumbs along the way and early Christians were then burying themselves in long tunnels, the mysterious Catacombs.

This is the first main road built by the Romans, a symbol of power and control in trading.

The old “Regina Viarum” today winds its way through an extraordinary Archaeological Park immersed in greenery, called the “APPIAN WAY”, full of mounds, sumptuous palaces and villas of Roman age. This place was chosen by early Christians as the site of the first CATACOMBS, long underground tunnels dug where even Popes chose to place their graves.