Antiquities Galore

This part of Rome is full of Roman ruins making walks around here very interesting. I’ve managed to log in lots of miles walking up and down the Appia Antica and other parks. As you’ll see the goats also like this area.

This goat picture shows modern herding methods - the car.

The Aqueduct park has several of the old aqueducts that provided Rome with water back in the good old days. That was all good until some of their enemies got wise and destroyed part of the aqueduct, depleting all the water. Just goes to show you shouldn’t put your aqueducts all in the same place.

To be fair, they were bringing the water down from the Casteli mountains (also shown here) so they had to place them in this area.

The Villa Quintili (which is now a park), built around 150 AD, is right at the doorstep of my friend’s place. This whole area, the Appia and neighborhood is a UNESCO world heritage site.  Not a bad location to live in. I enjoyed walking around here one day for several hours.

This park includes the ruins of numerous buildings and some small museums. In the first museum there is a 360 presentation of the history of the Appia Antica including shots from many films that were made along this road. These maps show the length of the Appia in Italy and beyond.

In the second museum, which is heavily guarded (see photo of guard sitting in the room) there are nice, small pieces which were found in the villa during excavations.

In the park I found this pomegranate tree - something which I’ve never seen before.

In addition to goats there is a lot of agriculture up and down the Appia.