Ancient Roman Appian Way running for inclusion in UNESCO World Heritage List

(6 Jul 2024)
ITALY APPIAN WAY
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Appian Way, Rome, Italy - 02 July 2024
1. Various of bikers and hikers on ancient Appian Way
2. Various of original cobblestone Roman pavement with signs of the wheels of carriages and chariots
3. Simone Quilici, Director of the Ancient Appia Archaeological Park walking out of Villa dei Quintili on the Appian Way
4. Close up of cobblestones
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Simone Quilici, Director of the Ancient Appia Archaeological Park:
"Today, the ancient Appian Way is not only a big open-air museum started in the 1800s, but it's also an immense green area, a place where Romans come for leisure time: biking, hiking and visiting monuments, of course. And so, it's one of the biggest suburban parks in Europe. So, it's both a monument and a big public park."
6. Close up of cobblestones
7. Pan right from biker approaching entrance to the Villa dei Quintili on the Appian Way
8. Roman villa ruins seen through window frame
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Simone Quilici, Director of the Ancient Appia Archaeological Park:
"The ancient Appian Way was the queen of the roads. It was a big engineering work, so it deserves, I would say, to be in the World Heritage list. It would be the first ancient Roman road to be in the list. So, I would say we have everything okay for this nomination. Of course, it's a big challenge. We need to, in some way, demonstrate that we’ll be able to protect this and also to enhance this big monument, longer than 500km from Rome to Brindisi. So it will be also one of the biggest, UNESCO sites here in Italy, for sure.”
10. Close-up of cobblestones with signs of the wheels of carriages and chariots
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Simone Quilici, Director of the Ancient Appia Archaeological Park:
“Along the Appian Way there were, mainly tombs by important families. And so the most important would be the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella. But we also have big archaeological sites, such as Villa dei Quintili - it’s more than 30 hectares of landscaped, well protected, where you have the remains of a huge imperial villa owned first by the Quintili brothers and then by Emperor Commodus."
12. Cecilia Metella Mausoleum
13. Roman marble plate with mausoleum name in Latin
14. Various of original statues inside mausoleum
15. Low-angle of bikers walking their bikes on bumpy ancient cobblestones
16. Pan right of Villa dei Quintili
17. Mosaics on floor
18. Partially destroyed walls surrounding mosaics
19. Wide of Villa ruins with marble columns
20. Pan down from Roman arches to thermal pool area
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Giorgio Piras, Professor of classical philology at the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, University of Rome La Sapienza
"It (the Ancient Appian Way) played a key role in the history of Rome, in the Italian peninsula and the conquering of the Italian peninsula. So, it's without doubt the most important ancient street built by the Romans.”
22. Various of ancient cobblestone road
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Giorgio Piras, Professor of classical philology at the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, University of Rome La Sapienza:
“You know that Italy obviously has already a very huge number of sites recognised by UNESCO, but that would be the first case of a road of an ancient street to be recognised as heritage of the entire world. And that would mean, in some way, to recognize the Italian landscape as heritage of the entire world."
24. Biker on Ancient Appian Way
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline (no last name given), tourist from Australia:
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