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Via Appia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: L. Quilici and S. Quilici Gigli
Contributors: R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Nov 13, 2025 11:58 AM — History
An early Roman road (via publica) originating at Rome and terminating at Brundisium, the Via Appia was begun in the fourth century B.C. by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. The Latin author Statius described the Via Appia as "queen of the long roads".

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/356966898

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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Via Appia

In July 2024, the Via Appia was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This cultural property, under the title of "Via Appia. Regina Viarum," conceives of the remains of the 800-km-long Via Appia as a cultural landscape; this heritage "site" comprises remains stretching from Rome to Brindisi. In inscribing the site on the World Heritage list, UNESCO lists the area of the heritage site itself as 4,639.92 hectares with a buffer zone of 40,205.79 hectares. UNESCO enrolled the site as it meets the following criteria:

(iii) to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;

(iv) to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;

(v) to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment, especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change;


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L. Quilici and S. Quilici Gigli, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Via Appia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/356966898> [accessed: 13 April 2026] 

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