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MANDRIONE Porta Metronia Via On one hand this fact has allowed the conservation Via Appia Nuova Via Tuscolana Casilina ThE APPIAn WAy TOWArds of his rural look, on the other hand it determined Porta S. Sebastiano 765 218 87 huge areas of environmental degradation. 118 660 ThE Sede del Parco Cartiera Latina Garbatella Colli Albani The Ancient Appian Way, from the Ciampino VALLE DELLA CAFFARELLA Porta Furba border towards Marino, is crossed (after about 500 Catacombe di S. Callisto Tombe Latine Tor Fiscale In the Municipalities of Ciampino and Marino, Circo di Massenzio Fonte Egeria Catacombe di S. Sebastiano Giulio Agricola where the road starts to climb toward the Castles, metres) by via di Capanne di Marino and reaches Tomba di 160 Cecilia Metella Subaugusta the extra-urban trail of the Ancient Appian Way the New Appian Way at the residential area of Via di Grotta Perfetta Capo di Bove TENUTA DI TORMARANCIA 660 occasionally passes close to vineyards and olive tree S.Maria delle Mole, built at the end of the 60s. ACQUEDOTTI TENUTA Sepolcri DELLA IV e V miglio FARNESIANA groves, that testify a rural past still alive in the Via Tuscolana Near the Mausoleum, known as La Mola, the memory of the people. Villa dei Quintili Here is possible to find the elements that refine the railway crosses the axis of the Ancient Way. Casal Rotondo 118 The railway, called Pio Latina, went from 765 GRA present landscape of the Ancient Appian Way, in all to . It was inaugurated in 1862 and then its natural, historical, archaeological, agricultural and prolonged until it reached Ceprano in . Via Ardeatina Torre Selce urban components. At 150 metres from the railway tracks, the ancient CORNACCHIOLE Via way is interrupted again by viale della Repubblica 218 Appia Antica In the mid 1800 Luigi Canina, with the objective to that joins with the new Appian way. Via Appia Nuova recover the remains of ancient monuments along the FIORANO These works were carried out by ANAS at the end trail, saw to the restoration of the way. of the 1970s, together with the initial stretch of the GRA At the beginning of the 1900’ the urban section of road at Frattocchie, which covered the last extant the Way was renovated multiple times until the portion of the Appian Way in this area. G.R.A (Rome’s ring road) was built, and with it, in Santa Maria delle Mole Roma Velletri the 60’ the ancient Way was paved with asphalt. FALCONIANA DIVINO AMORE The extra-urban section of the way was never paved. Frattocchie

FOR INFORMATION OR GUIDED TOURS: Info Point Frattocchie open for guiged Appia towards the Castles, tours or Info point Santa Maria delle VIA APPIA C.L'Abruzzo's Drawing 1789 Mole open Sunday from 9.30 to 13. Info: [email protected].

HOW TO ARRIVE: With the Car, for Info Point Frattocchie take the Appia Nuova XEXI MIGLIO ENTE PARCO towards Velletri, at KM 19 to the right before the gas station; for Santa REGIONALE Maria delle Mole take the Appia DELL’APPIA Nuova towards Velletri then turn to via della Repubblica. ANTICA With the Train, F.S. Roma Line - Velletri Santa Maria delle Mole stop. Sede del Parco e centro visite With the Bus, Cotral Roma Velletri or Via Appia Antica 42 Roma Nettuno from Anagnina Tel. 06 5126314 Station at Palaghiaccio- Santa Maria [email protected] delle Mole stop. www.parcoappiaantica.it PARCO REGIONALE DELL’APPIA www.facebook.com/ www.twitter.com/ www.instagram.com/ ANTICA parcoappiaantica parcoappia parcoappia PIEGHEVOLE inglese X e XI miglio 2019:PIEGHEVOLE caffarella 24/09/19 14.22 Pagina 5

1. Monte 3. Greek-cross 5. Fosso The entrance to the 8. Butto which featuring heating Since 2000, the Roman the ashes of the dead. Above di Terra Tomb plan Tomb delle Cornacchiole monument was located on tubules and traces of Archaeological Group has the funerary monument a the opposite side of the A few metres from the marble lining. been conducting a research quadrangular Opus In the Municipality of Further on, you may find You shall now cross the Appian Way and led to a railway bridge, to the left, an The presence of a large campaign in this area latericium (“brick work”) Ciampino, by the 9th mile of the remains of the so-called Fosso delle Cornacchiole rectangular burial chamber. area where broken Peperino threshold, showing signs of tower was built, probably the Appian way, the Greek-cross plan Tomb. (Cornacchiole’s Ditch), a The roofing had, probably, a blocks were dumped was heavy wearing and leading making use of an pre- imposing mass of the flint This Tomb has a right-hand tributary to the pyramidal or conic shape discovered. They filled a to the road, suggests that 11. Tomb with existing medieval concrete core of a circular quadrangular plan, with Fosso del Vallerano. with an Opus Quadratum room partly located under these were public baths. Secchi’s Tower watchtower. The structure tomb can be seen, it is rectangular recesses on three It originates from the lining. the road level. The baths had been has been used, in 1751, by known as Monte di Terra sides which contained western slopes of the Albian Here, two crouching probably built here as a Very close to the Frattocchie, Jesuit fathers Boscovich and (Mount of earth). funerary urns: a glass one Hills, near Fontanile 7. La Mola Tomb Peperino stone lions were result of natural sulphur on the left-hand side you Maire as final baseline’s Its diameter is over 30 containing the remains of Monaci, under the name of found; the best preserved and gas emissions, as well as may see the remains of vertex of the geodesic meters. The monument was two deceased and a ceramic Fosso del Fiorano. Flowing urther on the left you may one has his pawn resting mineral waters. funerary enclosures and the calculations (realized for the built upon a large one with the ashes of a boy downhill, it changes name to see the remains of La Mola, under the head of a fawn. Tomb with Tower. measurement and the design quadrangular Peperino stone in it. Fosso delle Cornacchiole a circular burial building, The lions are believed to be 10. Tabernae This is an Opus of the territory) that they podium, numerous blocks Because of how it has been and outside the Park area it with a 23 metres diameter decorations of a dismantled Caementicium chamber ran along the Ancient are preserved and can be constructed, the building is becomes Fosso delle made of Opus Caementicium tomb, possibly dating back Once you have crossed via tomb, originally lined with Appian Way with the Tomb seen along the Way. dated to the 3rd century AD. Cecchinola. covered by Opus Reticulatum to the 1st century AD. della Repubblica, on the square Peperino stone or of Cecilia Metella, by the 3rd After crossing the Appian (Reticulated Work). left side, you can clearly see marble blocks. mile, as the starting point. 2. Tomb with 4. Burial Mound Way, it flows trough a The Greek-cross plan 9. Building some facilities which The concrete core of the During the restoration Sarcophagus number of agricultural chamber is in Opus with Thermal Baths probably belonged to the tomb remains, which had to works of the Appian Way, On the left side of the road, estates. Quadratum, with barrel Mutatio ad Decimum, an have a quadrangular plan or, realized in the mid-1800s by After crossing Via Capanne right before crossing the vaults over the niches and a Between the railway bridge intermediate post house for more likely, a circular one. Luigi Canina, Jesuit Father di Marino, on your right Fosso (the Ditch), coming 6. Giovannino’s Tomb pavilion vault covering the and via della Repubblica a changing horses along the The chamber, like the access Secchi too measured a side is preserved the Tomb from Ciampino,you will central portion. well-preserved stone-slap Appian Way before corridor, is covered by a geodesic base from Cecilia with Sarcophagus. The find a tomb erected on a On the right-hand side of The different construction paving was unearthed for reaching Mansio di Aricia, barrel vault and is made out Metella tomb to the Tower chamber was rectangularly square podium made out of the Appian Way, near Km techniques make it possible about 100 metres. where one could rest for of Peperino-stone Opus by the Frattocchie. shaped and a limestone Peperino stone blocks, 18.250 approximately, a to date the monument to To the south-west, the road the night. Quadratum. There are three In 2013 the manhole and sarcophagus had been placed surmounted by a cone- square-based Opus the late Republican Age, expands in to a sort of paved The facilities (probably sides with as many recesses, the frame of Baseline’s vertex crossways along the southern shaped concrete core. Caementicium (Roman with extensions and square, facing it there is a Tabernae) were built containing ceramic urns for B, the big buried stone that wall. The sarcophagus had a concrete) tomb is preserved, masonry dating to the thermal building with at during the first half of the signal this point, were “pillow”where the head of into which four niches were middle of the Imperial Age. least 15 rooms, some of 2nd Century AD and then discovered. the deceased could rest. to open. abandoned towards Observing the building the middle of the 5th technique, the Tomb can be Century AD. dated to the Imperial Age.

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