FIRB 2010: Il paesaggio di una grande strada romana
FIRB PROJECT. THE LANDSCAPE OF A MAIN ROMAN ROAD: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH FOR THE DIACHRONOUS RECONSTRUCTION OF THE VIA APPIA AT THE AURUNCI PASS.
The Ancient Appia Route...
" Travelling along the ancient Appia route means immerse yourself in the millennial history; its fame has saved most of the characterizing and adorning monuments from destruction over time, so that nowadays it arises as a unique inheritance, running coast to coast through the Italian peninsula" (L. QUILICI)
" In antiquity, the Appia route was at the same time the most important road to Southern Italy and the main link for all trades connecting Rome to Africa, Greece and the Near East; this happens for the eight centuries when Rome was the centre of the world and those regions where the richest and wealthiest of the Mediterranean area. For these reasons, the route track and the secondary roads were always cared by Authorities, among which imperators, until the late and Imperial period. It was then called "nobilis, celeberrima, regina viarum", an unequalled model of all roads heading from Rome to the more distant regions of the known world. Since it was built, the Appia route represented an outstanding technological and engineering achievement realizing a rational design even at the cost of extreme efforts, over the natural adversities that hindered its construction. The route travels the central and southern regions of the Italian peninsula, from the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic coast, by crossing the Ancient Latium, the Sannio and Puglia regions and ending eventually at the Brindisium harbour." (L. QUILICI)
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ITABC O.U.The ITABC, since its foundation and consistently with the need of a multi- and inter-disciplinary approach in the researches applied to Cultural Heritage, works in different areas of competence such as archaeology, architecture, chemistry, physics, geophysics, geology, engineering and informatics.
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O.U. University of CampaniaIl Dipartimento di Lettere e Beni culturali of the University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, in the context of multi-discipinary expertises (archaeology, history, arts, literature), take advantage of the Laboratory of Ancient Topography which pursues as main goal the knowledge increase about ancient territories setting and populations development, through the editing of thematic maps dedicated to archaeological issues and the management of Cultural Heritage.
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