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Sepolcro di Priscilla

VIA ARDEATINA Chiesetta del Domine ?

VIA DELLA CAFFARELLA VA LLE DELLACAFF

Catacombe di S. Callisto VIA APPIA PIGNATELLI Porta S. SebastianoCatacombe di Pretestato ARELLA

Sepolcro di Geta

Sepolcro di Priscilla Sepolcro di Annia Regilla Triopio di Erode Attico BasilicaVIA e ARDEATINcatacombAe Chiesetta del Domine quo Vadis? di S. Sebastiano Ninfeo di VIA DELLA CAFFARELLAChiesa di S. Urbano VA LLE DELLACAFF Palazzo di Catacombe Massenzio di S. Callisto Mausoleo di RomoloVIA APPIA PIGNATELLI Catacombe di Pretestato

Circo di ARELLA Massenzio

Sepolcro di Annia Regilla Triopio di Erode Attico e catacombe di S. Sebastiano Ninfeo di Egeria Chiesa di S. Urbano

Chiesa di Mausoleo di S. Nicola Cecilia Metella Palazzo Palazzo di Massenzio

Castrum Caetan Mausoleo di Romolo

i Circo di Massenzio

VIA DI CECILIA METELLA

CapoChiesa di Bove di Mausoleo di S. Nicola Cecilia Metella Palazzo Caetani

Castrum Caetan

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Sepolcro degli Equinozi VICOLO DI TOR CARBONE

VIA DI CECILIA METELLA

Capo di Bove Tomba c.d. di Seneca

Sepolcro circolare

VIA DEI LUGARI Tomba c.d. dei figli di Sesto Pompeo

Sepolcro di S.Urbano SepolcroTempio degli di Equinozi GIove VICOLO DI TOR CARBONE

Sepolcro di Hilaro Fusco

Sepolcro di Tiberio Claudio Secondo Tomba c.d. di Seneca VIA DEGLI EUGENII

Tomba a Tempietto Arboretum Sepolcro circolare Todellamba Via dei Appia Rabirii VIA DEI LUGARI Tomba c.d. dei figli di Sesto Pompeo

Sepolcro di S.Urbano Tempio di GIove

Tomba a Festoni Tomba del Frontespizio

SepolcroVIA DI TOR di Hilaro CARBON FuscoE VIA ERODE ATTICO

Sepolcro di Tiberio SepolcrI in laterizio Claudio Secondo

VIA DEGLI EUGENII Santa Maria Nova Tumuli degli Orazi e Curiazi Tomba a Tempietto Tomba dei Rabirii Tomba a piramide

Villa dei Quintili

Ninfeo della dei Quintili Tomba a Festoni Tomba del Frontespizio

TombaVIA DI diTOR Septimia CARBON GallaE VIA ERODE ATTICO

SepolcrI in laterizio Statua togata Santa Maria Nova Tumuli degli Orazi e Curiazi

Tomba a piramide Mausoleo di VIA DI TORRICOLA VIA DI CASALVilla dei ROTONDO Quintili

Ninfeo della Villa dei Quintili Sepolcro dei Grifi Tomba dei sei arcosoli

Tomba di Septimia Galla Torre Selce

Statua togata

Mausoleo di Casal Rotondo VIA DI TORRICOLA VIA DI CASAL ROTONDO

Sepolcro dei Grifi Tomba dei sei arcosoli

Torre Selce REGINA A PLACE OF THE CHRISTIAN CEMETERIES AND THE COMPLEX OF ,LEO THE MAUSO- 4TH AND 5TH THE VILLA OF THE QUINTILI AND THE VIARUM THE CAFFARELLA VALLEY LEUM OF CAECILIA METELLA MILE ROAD AND CAPO DI BOVEIL MAUSO UP TO THE 9TH MILE

The construction of the engineering work, desi- chariots to pass one The first archaeologi- from the early 18th cen- bed to Geta (murdered Christian monuments soleum of Cecilia Metel- an area to the of In the early 4th century Volcano about 260,000 the church of San Nico- Work to refurbish the monuments over time mid-shaped funerary The Villa of the Quin- and the Antiquarium lies del Prete (’s hat) Appian Way, begun gned to allow for rapid another; on both sides cal features visible on tury to the 19th century. by his brother Caracal- a long stretch la and part of the Caffa- the underworld and the AD, before his defe- years ago. The tomb la di and with Appian Way and some and protect them from building; on tili was the largest villa at Via Appia Nuova no. for its shape and, at the by the censor and easy transport to were pavements (crepi- the Appian Way are On the left-hand side, la), topped by a priva- of the road: on the ri- rella Valley belonged to funerary cult of his de- at by Constantine, the was built between 30 towers. Further on, at of its monuments thieves, using new re- the tombs attributed to in the Roman . 1092. The estate of San- 9th mile on the right, the Caecus in 312 various destinations, dines) for pedestrians, the leaving Rome, is the fa- tely owned 16th-century ght the complex of San in the ceased wife, naming it emperor Maxentius bu- and 10 BC by one of no. 222, is an archaeo- between the 4th and storation and conser- the Horatii and - Belonging to the Quintili ta Maria Nova, next to ascribed to BC, marked the Roman overcoming nume- differing in width in dif- Gate (which hosts the mous Tomb of the Sci- farmhouse and, on the Callisto with the longest mid- AD. He the Triopium. The main ilt a complex above the Rome’s most important logical complex recent- 11th mile was comple- vation methods for the tii in the place known brothers (consuls in 151 the area of the Villa dei the emperor conquest of southern rous natural obstacles ferent stretches of the Museum of the Walls) pios (visits by request to right, the tomb of Pri- network of catacomb was an illustrious man of monuments still visible in remains of earlier buil- aristocratic families. ly acquired by the So- ted between 1850 and archaeological features as the fossae Cluiliae, BC) it became an impe- Quintili, was recently pur- (AD 253-286). When and opened the along its route. The road according to ne- and, immediately befo- the Soprintendenza di scilla, the wife of a fre- tunnels in Rome, and Athenian origin, a - the Caffarella Valley are: dings which was typical The frieze on the top, printendenza Speciale 1853 by Luigi Canina, discovered. The fune- where the duel marking rial property under Com- chased by the Soprinten- the restoration of the route to the Mediter- road surface of large eds. The Appian Way re it, the so-called Capitale) where edman of (AD the San Sebastiano sopher, scholar and tutor the church of Sant’Ur- of imperial Tetrarchic decorated with gar- per i Beni Archeologici the Papal Govern- rary monuments along the defeat of Alba Lon- modus and remained in denza; it hosts buildings last stretch of the road is ranean via the port of paving stones, admi- was the most important of Drusus, probably a eminent figures of Re- 81-96). Opposite is the area, which also com- to the emperors Marcus bano built in the early ideology and the desire lands and bull’s skulls, di Roma. Alongside the ment’s Commissio- the road belong to diffe- ga and the supremacy use until the 5th century which have undergone completed, the Appian , where the road red even in antiquity for road artery in the Ro- triumphal arch and later publican Rome were little church of Santa prises important pagan Aurelius and Ve- over the to aggrandize the impe- have given the area its 2nd-century AD bath ner for Roman Antiqui- rent architectural types of Rome over AD. It preserves signs of transformations from the Way will recover its sta- ended. The road began its perfection, was laid man world, well-deser- part of the antoninian buried, starting with Maria in Palmis, better monuments, known as rus. On the death of his Temple of Ceres and rial dynasty for its com- name of complex discovered in ties: as well as restoring dating to between the was believed to have the different building pha- Roman period until the tus as a national monu- at the Gate gradually between the ving of the epithet re- . From Piazza- Scipio Barbatus, con- known as Domine, quo the memoria apostolo- noble wife Annia Re- Faustina, the so-called bination of a , a (bull’s head). In the the garden, the building the road, a strip of land end of the and taken place. Many mo- ses and of the transfor- present. Beyond this, ment and play a cultural in the 6th-century BC 3rd and 2nd century gina viarum (queen of le Numa Pompilio, the sul in 298 BC; the large vadis?, the place of the rum for its links with the gilla, who had brought Tomb of Annia Regilla Mausoleum and a Cir- early 14th century the hosting photographic about 10 metres wide the mid-imperial period. numents stand inside mations undergone by the many monuments role in keeping with its Servian Walls opposite BC and restored under roads) which it was gi- current start of the Ap- collective tombs include legendary encounter cult of and Paul him as a dowry, among next to the river, cus. Further along the Caetani family built a exhibitions and housing on each side with its Some tombs preserve private properties, are its structures and decora- include the circular mau- importance becoming, the , in the using stone ven by the poet pian Way, to the Porta the columbaria of the between St Peter and and for having given rise other things, her vast the Nymphaeum ascri- road, at the 3rd mile, large fortress here to the archive of Antonio funerary monuments portraits and inscrip- not visible and have tions. The most imposing soleum of Casal Roton- as has today’s Piazza di Por- from the lava flow of in the AD. San Sebastiano, boun- Vigna Codini, publicly , whose to catacomb lands along the Appian bed to Egeria, one of the lies the Mausoleum of control traffic entering Cederna can be visited. was purchased by the tions naming the dece- often been adapted for buildings belong to the vil- do, on private land, the written “the backbone ta Capena. It originally the Volca- dary walls conceal nu- owned but inside priva- remained miraculously (katà kumbas at the ca- Way, Herodes Atticus Camenae, goddesses of Caecilia Metella, in a and exiting Rome. The state. Following the ased. One of the most residential or decorati- la’s bath complex; on the imposing Torre Selce of a new structure able ended at and no, which ran for 12 km merous funerary monu- te residences (visits on impressed in one of the vities) from the natural reorganized the estate and springs, the dominant position as Castrum Caetani, ex- examples of Valadier important stretches is ve purposes. Appian Way lies the large built in the medieval pe- to build the true modern was later prolonged up to the Mausoleum ments on private land. request to the Soprin- road’s paving stones. cavities present in the in her honour, giving it so-called Constantinian this is where the lava tending to both sides of and Canova, Canina the 5th mile. The nu- Nymphaeum reused in riod on top of a Roman Rome”. to , of Cecilia Metella. The These were the object tendenza). Along the area. The vast area now a sacred and funerary Columbarium and the flow known as Capo di the road, comprised an created a sort of vast merous monuments the medieval period as a tomb, a circular mauso- and then to Brindisi. road was about 4 me- of the first systematic next stretch outside the occupied by the complex function, building tem- Valca Tower. Bove ends; it was cre- aristocratic residence “open-air museum” to include: on the left, fortress. The entrance to leum of the 4th century This was a massive tres wide to allow two excavations in this area walls lie the tomb ascri- of Maxentius, the Mau- ples and consecrating ated by the Alban Hills next to the mausoleum, preserve the ancient the structure of a pyra- the archaeological area AD known as Berretto