“I ask an old man with a stick: do people know this is the Appia Antica? He says: almost nobody. And it is as if he said, if men forget it, the road disappears. In fact it is not the stone that makes the road but the repeated act of going. Only whoever walks hears the voice of the road and can tell its legend.” — Paolo Rumiz

The volume comes out of documentary work commissioned by the National Geographic Society, made to mark and support the naming of the Via Appia as a world heritage site.