On July 31, UNESCO proclaimed the Via Appia, or Appian Way, Italy’s 60th World Heritage Site. Running about 500 miles from Rome south to Brin disi and lined with cy-presses and umbrella pines, the Via Ap-pia was begun in 312 BC by its namesake, the blind Censor Apppius Claudius Caecus, for military reasons.
Rome is nicknamed “The Eternal City” thanks to her monuments from all periods of her history: from the legendary kings to the present.
Spread to human beings by fleas that had previously bitten infected rats, the bubonic plague or “black death” was a constant problem for Venice from its first outbreak in 1347,
During the winter of 2019 at the Palazzo Braschi, just outside the Piazza Navona, the city of Rome hosted the temporary mega-exhibition “Canova.
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