The Appian Way was begun as a military highway in 312 B.C. by the statesman Appius Claudius. Paved with huge lava blocks in a bed of crushed stone cemented with lime, the roadway was wide enough to ...

There is an ancient church located on the Via Appia Antica (Old Appian Way) outside of the city of Rome named Domine Quo Vadis. The church takes its name from oral tradition and apocryphal writings ...