Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list
Italy’s Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the earliest and most important road built by the ancient Romans, has been named aKnown as the Regina Viarum, or Queen of Roads, it connected Rome with the port of Brindisi in the south and marked a revolution in the construction of roads.
Today, the first 17km of the cobblestone path remains and is preserved within the Appia Antica archaeological park in the south of Rome., walkers and cyclists, the perfectly intact road is flanked by what remains of ancient Roman aqueducts and villas. Beneath the path is a sprawling network of catacombs where Christian converts were buried.
Unesco said the road illustrated “the advanced technical skill of Roman engineers in the construction of roads, civil-engineering projects, infrastructure and sweeping land-reclamation works, as well as a vast series of monumental structures including, for example, triumphal arches, baths, amphitheatres and basilicas, aqueducts, canals, bridges, and public fountains”.
Brâncuși, who was born in the small village of Hobița, near the Carpathian mountains, but lived in Paris for most of his life, created the open-air collection that includes the Endless Column and the Gate of the Kiss in the small south-western Romanian town of Târgu Jiu in 1937-1938 as a tribute to fallen first world war soldiers.
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