Culture Minister Dario Franceschini pledged to deploy EU funds in boosting tourism for hikers along the Appian Way, the cobbled Roman consular road lined with antiquities that links the Eternal City to Puglia in Italy’s deep south.
The minister said he has been in touch with presidents of the four regions the Appian Way passes through, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata and Puglia, en route to the port of Brindisi, the ancient Roman port for Greece, and will meet them October 14 to coordinate the project. The Appian Way unites areas where foreign tourists don’t arrive, it revalues the South and recovers a unique archaeological heritage.
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