GMB on the Appian Way

A Spooky Encounter in the Catacombs at San Sebastiano and the Appian Way

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March 30th 2013
Todays Gelato flavour was : Mint and Chocolate I have had an ambition since my college days and geography lessons to see what the Appian Way in Rome was all about. The road was built initially for military purposes in 312 BC and ran all the way from Rome to Brindisi in the south,many hundreds of kilometres away.We were sure it wasn't going to look anything like that today. The da ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more