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A 289 km round trip from Mondragone - roughly 6 h 22 in the saddle. The stops in between: The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae, Appia. Regina Viarum, back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum and back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The Via Appia, the Queen of Roads, ran from Rome to Brindisi, and in 2024 UNESCO inscribed long stretches of it as a single World Heritage site. Near Mondragone, on the coast of northern Campania, the road passes the site of Sinuessa, a Roman colony that once guarded the route where it reached the sea after crossing the coastal plains from the north. Not a great deal stands above ground today, so this is a place where you read the landscape rather than tour the ruins.
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The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is where the day begins. Next is The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae.
The queen of roads, the Romans called it: the Via Appia, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, ran from Rome to Capua and later on to Brindisi, the gateway to Greece and the East. Near Formia, the old road comes down from the hills of Itri to the coast of the Gulf of Gaeta, and a stretch of it, with its paving stones and roadside monuments, survives in the countryside. In 2024, UNESCO listed the Via Appia as a whole, and this section between the eighty-third mile from Rome and the ancient town of Formiae is one of its pieces.
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The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae comes up 39 km in. Next is Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 39 km on.
Terracina is the point where the Via Appia, the queen of roads, meets the sea after its long straight run from Rome across the Pontine plain. The Romans built the road in 312 BC under the censor Appius Claudius, and for its time it was a marvel: paved, drained and as straight as engineering allowed, linking Rome to Capua and later to Brindisi. The stretch through the Pontine marshes was notorious for mosquitoes and malaria, and travellers often took a canal boat alongside the road instead, as the poet Horace describes in one of his satires.
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78 km in you reach Via Appia. Regina Viarum.
South of the Alban Hills, the Via Appia drops onto the Pontine plain and runs dead straight for mile after mile, as if the Roman engineers had laid it with a ruler, which in a sense they did. This was the Regina Viarum, the queen of roads, begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus to link Rome with Capua, and later extended to Brindisi. Here, near Sezze Scalo and Latina, the road crossed the Pontine Marshes, a malarial swamp that defeated would-be drainers from the Romans to the popes. Travellers sometimes took a canal boat alongside the road instead, and the poet Horace complained about the mosquitoes and the frogs keeping him awake on that very journey.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum, about halfway.
The Romans called it the queen of roads, and in 2024 UNESCO agreed, listing the Via Appia from Rome to Brindisi as a World Heritage site. Begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, it was the first great Roman road, built to move armies south toward Campania and later extended to the port of Brindisi, the gateway to Greece and the East.
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Via Appia. Regina Viarum sits at 156 km, about halfway. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 38 km on.
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back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum comes up 194 km in. Next is back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum, 39 km on.
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233 km in you reach back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum. Next is back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae.
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back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae, late in the day. Next is The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S.
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The route ends here after 289 km.
The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S → The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Via Appia. Regina Viarum → back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Via Appia from 83rd mile to Formiae → The Via Appia from Sinuessa to the Pagus S is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.