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CONFINE PARCO THE CAFFARELLA VALLEY APPIA ANTICA

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Mura Aureliane M SENTIER0 NATURA Porta Furio Camillo S. Sebastiano Via Centuripe V V ia ia A La pp ENTRATE Via Cilicia Cisterna tin ia grande a N Autobus u M Via Macedonia o Casale 87 va Ostiense CARTIERA Vigna Cartoni LATINA Park Authority in 2004 However the mammal Via De Bildt M stands out both for its size species are scarce. Besides Laghetto PUNTO e pioppeto Colli Albani and its ecologic importance. the fox, symbol of the park, INFORMATIVO i M i Largo On the North-East sides of hedgehogs, moles and V Appia Antica Sepolcro di Geta a i rr CASA Tacchi Venturi a a n the valley there are some weasels can be encountered. C a d DEL PARCO r Domine Quo Vadis e i l Vigna Cardinali Oak woodlands. The tuff Almost all of the reptiles s la P t Sepolcro o Ca f f rich agricultural terrains are belonging to the Rome city o di Priscilla Fi fa Arco r um re Cisterna M o e A lla di Travertino lm fienile often interrupted by area are present in the park. C on o Largo Riziero e Cisterna l untamed Mediterranean The green toad prevails o ninfeo m Galvaligi Casale dell’Ex Mulino scrublands, partly due to amongst the amphibians. b Via Sepolcro Annia Regilla o della Caffar some chasms and holes that Native fishes, like the ella are a testament of centuries- Rovella, live in the local Casale Vaccareccia Tombe long mining activity. channels, along with several Latine V Orto didattico The peculiar distribution of introduced species. Finally, ia A the all these components along the invertebrates of these pp ia

the valley's hydrographic lands, insects in particular, An Catacombe ti Sorgenti network is one of the have been object to intense di San Callisto ca defining elements of its entomological studies since Ninfeo di Egeria e landscape and its the last century. n caffarella V Via o ia A m dell pp l agricultural ecosystem. e S ia A ett ’ e C Pi Torre Valca l hies gn S. Urbano l Such a diversified e a Bosco Sacro e te d lli a environment offers a i V favorable habitat for a great Colombario valley Costantiniano number of species. Catacombe di In particular, the San Sebastiano Cisterna cohabitation of birds ENTE PARCO romana PUNTO V Circo di Massenzio i INFORMATIVO usually tied to many wild REGIONALE ia A Fonte Egeria habitats, from the forests to DELL’APPIA rd ea t in the wet lands, along with ANTICA a birds that are from cities Sede del Parco e centro visite PARCO and more foreign Via Appia Antica 42 Cecilia Metella REGIONALE la environments, is a peculiar Tel. 06 5126314 el DELL’APPIA et www.facebook.com/ www.twitter.com/ www.instagram.com/ M condition of ecologic and [email protected] a ANTICA ili academic interest. www.parcoappiaantica.it parcoappiaantica parcoappia parcoappia ec C di a Vi PIEGHEVOLE caffarella inglese 2015:PIEGHEVOLE caffarella 23/07/15 14.17 Pagina 5

Via Prenestina Porta S. Sebastiano estate started in 1529 with the valley started in that The Caffarella Valley is located near the VALLE DELLA SEDE DEL PARCO CAFFARELLA Giovanni Pietro Caffarelli. year. Only in 1981, Rome V ia Ca Aurelian Walls and between two ancient G.R.A. silina Later the property of the Municipality approved a

o estate passed to the princes restoration project for this roman roads, Via Appia and Via Latina, b m lo o Pallavicini and in 1816 was area and in 1988 the area C . C both leading to southern Italy. The valley ia Via bought by the duke became part of the Appia V Tusco V lan I a A Giovanni Torlonia. The Antica Regional Park. In played an important role both in the AP Via PI An A ag continuous maintenance 1992 and 1996 Rome AN ni T na IC history and in the myths and legends of A V and improvement works by municipality allocated the ia A pp ia the Torlonias, mainly to funds necessary to acquire Rome: along the river Almone, an N u V o ia va the complex hydric and finally restore the A rd affluent of the Tiber, important rites e network, surely helped to largest part of the area. a t in Sepolcro Annia Regilla connected with the mysteries of the a preserve the countrylike Thanks to the 2007-2013 characteristic scenery that ROP (regional operational Mother Goddess Cybeles were held at the INFORMATION, GUIDED TOURS AND BICYCLE RENTAL: The history of human occupation the estate had acquired program) the Public since the first works by the Authority of the Park has Ides of March; a sacred wood, whose Casa del Parco Vigna Cardinali Largo Tacchi Venturi shows no interruptions from pre- Caffarellis. Starting from implemented the [email protected] modern and archaic age to today. traces can still be seen, was here preserved Tel. 3337137257 the 1920s an exception to educational areas, restored since the early times of the city; here a open Friday, Saturday, Sunday the town planning-scheme two historic farmsteads and and Monday 9.30-13 14-17 n fact, it is easy to Among these villas, very provides a division of the three artifacts related to the secluded nymphaeum, according to the Also bicycle workshop, educational ASSOCIAZIONE conspicuous were the valley into streets and lots, ancient hydraulic system CULTURALE Iunderstand how early the vegetable garden and environmental and this was confirmed by legend, was credited to be the romantic “HUMUS” Onlus valley was inhabited, monumental residential laboratory. located as it is in a very house built by Herod the 1931 and 1953 plans. meeting place of Numa Pompilio and his fertile area an with an Atticus and his wife Annia The struggle to preserve lover and counsellor, the nymph Egeria. and then of the Torlonias, by an ever-growing number orography that enables a Regilla and, later, the great thus preserving those typical of citizens, the valley suffered quick passage to the Colli complex built around During the Republic,and in the centuries “romanlike” country only little damage and Albani and to the southern Massentius imperial palace. The peculiar landscape of the of the Empire, the land housed big landscapes that made many eventually became part of Italy. The highest During the early Middle painters and artists fall in the Appia Antica Regional development stage was Age the area around the Caffarella has been created by country estatesand villas. love with them. In the fifthies Park. The larger part of the between II century b.C. Appia belonged to the millennium-long human of 20th century, an land (132 hectares) was and the beginning of the Counts Tuscolani that he valley’s rural character in the valley was settled a big overflowing urban growth restored at the end of the 90s imperial age when the fortified and militarised it transformations of the territory. Tdidn’t change after the farm owned by the Caffarelli almost ended this by Rome Municipality, and valley starts to be crowded to control every transit to fall of Rome, as the first family (hence the name). millenniums-long history, as now is ready for all to enjoy. by sepulchres, dovecotes, their Tuscolo possessions. for agriculture, livestock towers rose to watch the After some years, the the valley was risking to be A walk in the Caffarella is little temples and room The abundance of water in and the excavation of fields, farm-houses and property passed under the entirely covered by a today an exciting adventure tombs, while in the this area allowed construction materials. mills. In the 16 th century, possession of the Pallavicinis concrete flood. Thanks to in a unique setting, ranging neighbouring areas many agricultural and handicraft Today the wide valley floor the political campaigns led from traces of Roman big villas start to appear - activities, so there were terrains are used as grazing built several water-powered Ninfeo di Egeria by scholars and intellectuals, history, to grazing cattle and some of them will remain lands mainly for ovines. XVIII Century print among which Antonio a blooming nature - only a in use up to the late mills and fulling plants. The Almon river and other Cederna is to be step away form Rome’s centuries on Rome an after The reunification of all the smaller streams, nourished remembered, and followed historic centre. the falling of The Empire. allotments into one large exclusively by native springs, run across the terrains. Cisterna romana Casale della Vaccareccia They are all connected by ancient root canal Oak treatments and water regulation mechanisms. These wet lands, with hanks to the progressive distinguishing vegetation Tdeforestation and made of rushes, poplars swamp reclamation the and willows, contribute to originally forest dense areas the environmental were transformed into an diversification. Among these environment more suited lands, the pond made by the