After the success of the stages of Taranto and Benevento, the exhibition “L’Appia ritrovata.” Walking from Rome to Brindisi “by Paolo Rumiz and his companions continues your journey.
Paolo Rumiz will tell you about the Appia through documents, photographs and multimedia. A testimony to sanction the rediscovery and return to the country of the entire route of the first major European route, from Rome to Brindisi, traveled on foot in the summer of 2015 by Paolo Rumiz, Riccardo Carnovalini, Alessandro Scillitani and Irene Zambon, 2327 years old beginning of its construction.
“It is the task of each of us, as citizens, to give back to the Res Publica this scandalously abandoned good, but still capable – after twenty-three centuries – of reconnecting the South to the rest of the country and indicating its Mediterranean role to Italy. a brand, a “brand” of formidable international appeal, a portal of hidden marvels that is decidedly more varied and far older than the Camino de Santiago “explains Rumiz.
A long journey that has made it possible to trace the integral path of the mother of all the streets, forgotten in centuries of dilapidation, negligence and ignorance: the Appia.
The exhibition will remain open until June 3, 2018 with the following times:
Monday: 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm / Tuesday to Sunday: 9:00 am to 8:00 pm.
The exhibition, promoted by Service II of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism as part of the “Appia Regina Viarum” project – Valorisation and systemisation of the path along the ancient Roman path of Appia “, in which the Regions of Lazio, Campania, Basilicata and Puglia also participate, produced by the Italian Geographical Society Onlus, sponsored by the Municipality of Melfi and the Basilicata Region, in collaboration with the Pole Museum of Basilicata, is an invitation to discover, through Riccardo’s shots Carnovalini, Antonio Politano’s photographs] created for National Geographic Italia] and Alessandro Scillitani’s “on the road” films.
Along the exhibition you can relive an adventure that crosses Italy, the Appia is the first major road in Europe, turned to the Mediterranean, passable in both directions and able to connect the three great religions and to network the cities from Rome to Brindisi. The Appia has great economic and tourist potential, it is a widespread monument of international appeal, suitable for sustainable and careful tourism.
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