Rome in depth
Explore a different Roman landscape where ancient roads, infrastructure, and the memory of the people who lived here come together.
Tours from €100 per group
The Appian Way was one of the great roads of the Roman world. Built to help move troops and goods, over time it also became a place of remembrance, lined with tombs and funerary monuments.
Its landscape preserves a striking contrast: ancient paving and ruins appear in an open setting at the edge of the modern city. Each fragment shows how infrastructure supported Rome’s growth and daily life.
Aqueducts carried water into the city, supporting baths, fountains, and homes. Their arches, still visible in the landscape around Rome, show how technical solutions could also become monumental landmarks.
A story about water is also a story about organisation, labour, and everyday life in a vast capital.
Underground networks of burial galleries preserve evidence of the practices and communities of early Christians. Symbols, inscriptions, and burial spaces offer another perspective on faith and life in the first centuries of Christianity.
The experience connects the landscape’s monuments with the history of its people, adding context to the places along the way.
