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Federica
your tour guide in Rome |
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City guide |
Appian
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Explore the peace and quite of the Appian Way, the Queen of consular roads, just beyond the city walls, surrounded by the roman countryside and lined by aristocratic mausolea. Once path of conquest to the South and East of the Mediterranean world, built in 312 BC, like most of the consular roads outside of the city it became lined with cemeteries and later the early Christians built their extensive underground burial places the Catacombs, used also to pray on the |
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on
the tombs of the first popes and martyrs. Rumours say that the many
Catacombs of Rome are all connected by galleries which extend for 20
kilometres under the busy city. This road becomes perfect scenery for
a romantic stroll at sunset with ancient villas, aqueducts, and columns
as background |
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on
Sundays when it is closed to the traffic. The road passes all the way
back from Piazza Venezia, through the Aurelian
Wall at Porta San Sebastiano, one of the best preserved
of the old gates,
.then it passes in front of a famous small church Domine
Quo Vadis built on the spot where Peter
escaping
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