Appia Regina Viarum. MiBACT project for the recovery of the Appia Antica presented.

Presented the Appia Regina Viarum project strongly desired by MiBACT Minister Dario Franceschini: an initiative that was inspired by Paolo Rumiz ’s walk along the ancient route of the Roman consular road.

The project is financed with 20 million euros and is part of the Culture and Tourism Plan launched in 2016; it now enters a new phase with the awarding of the tender for the elaboration of the executive project published last August 5.

It is the first national secular walk with a cultural matrix that is about 600 kilometers long and consists of 29 stages. The seal of the path has already been designed and created by calligrapher Pietro Porro: a double-A alphabetical monogram marking the number one route in the ancient world with two prospectively converging lines. Transposed on a stamp, the latter will be affixed to breads, a food proper to Italian culture and in particular to the regions crossed by the Appian Way.

“Our journey has changed reality,” said Paolo Rumiz, “giving birth to articles, films, books and releasing a powerful civic energy, which will be a great element of unity of this direct democracy operation that will allow to vivify an extraordinary path, made of history, civilization, culture and archaeology.”

On the occasion of the presentation that took place in the Collegio Romano, a film curated by director Alessandro Scillitani was made : “The return of the great diagonal of the Mediterranean, a million steps from Rome to Brindisi that after decades of oblivion return viable returning finally to the res publica a forgotten asset. A monument, a myth, a line that does not end but leads to none other than the Silk Road. A project of European scope that touches four regions and involves Italians from Rome to Brindisi in the least known and perhaps most authentic part of the country. The dream of a blind man, Appius Claudius, which after twenty-three centuries becomes reality, road, path again.”

“The Regina Viarum,” continued Minister Franceschini, “unites territories rich in an extraordinary cultural, archaeological and landscape heritage and has the characteristics to become one of the greatest European paths. It is our precise duty to invest in this project, which has the merit of focusing on culture to promote and support the economic and social development of Southern Italy.”

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Pictured: a stretch of Appia Antica

Appia Regina Viarum. MiBACT project for the recovery of the Appia Antica presented.

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