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Appia Regina Viarum, the project starts

2020-03-05T09:43:21.615Z


20 million for the journey on the ancient Rome-Brindisi route (ANSA)


ROME - "Regina viarum", the queen of all roads. But also "insignis, nobilis, celeberrima", as the Latins wrote. Goethe recounts it and still today the richest of memories and testimonies of the glories of the Roman era and of centuries of paths, trade and pilgrimages that have passed through it. The Via Appia finds its ancient route, 360 miles from Rome to Brindisi, with the Mibact project "Appia Regina Viarum - Enhancement and systemisation of the path along the ancient Roman route", which officially kicks off on March 4th and it will transform it into the "first secular journey in the world".

"It's a bit of a day zero", says the writer and journalist Paolo Rumiz, who in 2015 together with Riccardo Carnovalini, Irene Zambon and Alessandro Scillitano traveled the entire Appian Way on foot, telling it to his readers and today among the creators of the project . "In minutes", he says, the definitive and executive planning of the walk will be awarded. A 20 million euro transaction. The phase starting today, explain from Mibact, will involve three large groups of designers and will last 210 days, at the end of which the four batches of works will be presented for as many regions involved: Lazio, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia. The 29 stages of the path have already been identified, with varying degrees of difficulty: in Itri, for example, you can serenely walk on four kilometers of Roman paving, along the Terracina strip, however, the Appian Way is "swallowed" by vehicular traffic and an alternative solution will have to be found. A first aerial survey has already given an overview of the main critical issues, on which the designers will now go to work, in what is officially the first fully computerized tender of Mibact.

Of the 20 million euros, 9 million 150 thousand are destined for "non-invasive" works on site, such as signage, the installation of milestones, the columns at the beginning and end of the stage. The competence is of the municipalities that may eventually delegate it to the Regions. The Superintendencies involved will receive 6.8 million for restorations and scientific research, also to resolve doubts about the actual layout of some sections, which scholars still do not agree with. A small budget will remain at Mibact for events and promotions, such as the exhibition "The Appian Way found on the way from Rome to Brindisi", which today returns to the Casale di Santa Maria Nova (until 13 September), after three years of touring and more of sixty thousand visitors. "In a couple of years" - they say to the ministry - the path will be entirely feasible "(info and to follow the progress of the work: www.camminodellappia.it)." It is not true that all roads lead to Rome, if anything they leave from Rome. This was the vision of time - Rumiz says - When, five years ago, we walked we could not believe that we were the first after two centuries to do it all on foot. A path dotted with monuments whose value goes beyond archeology, because the Appia summarizes millennia of the country's history "with" access to the largest archaeological park in the world. And unlike the path of Santiago, which ends in nothing, it is a great start and a great restart with the Silk Road. The project - he concludes - will need the involvement of all local populations. Many associations have already made themselves known and marathons of running between municipalities were born that until a short time ago they didn't even talk. An operation that "through" light tourism "will be able to" enhance 'forgotten' areas ", giving" new self-esteem to an entire Italy that perhaps suffers a little margin ".

Source: ansa

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