The Royal Road of Calabria, 2200 years of history since Napoli in Reggio Calabria. An itinerary that allows you to visit 44 cities in 260 km of route, 3 regions, 4 provinces, 3 national parks. It allows you to admire and study evidence from the Roman, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as Neolithic and Paleolithic sites. The walker Vienna Cammarota was also at the presentation: "Only by crossing the villages with the path and only by enhancing the unknown cultural heritage can we help young people not to leave". 

The Royal Road of Calabria

This is the Royal Road of Calabria, also recently presented to the foreign press in Rome. “A study carried out in the field that lasted 8 years – says the architect, historian and delegate of the Archeoclub of Italy Luca Esposito – gave life to a tourism, cultural and social development project which represents a real novelty for Italy. Eight years during which we studied the maps of the late 700th century to rediscover an extraordinary cultural heritage, made up of 30 40th century taverns, XNUMX bridges from the Roman or XNUMXth century periods.

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Ancient map of the Kingdom of Naples ( Wikimedia Commons)

Also along the Roman route of the Via Popilia that we have found with an innovative research methodology we can find early Christian baptisteries, truly unique millenary sites. A cultural heritage outside the traditional circuits, but which now has light". “The Strada Regia delle Calabrie is the road of the German writer Wolfgang Goethe who traveled it to get to Paestum or the painter Jacob Philippe Hackert.  Of the engineer and seismologist Robert Mallet or again – he underlines – of the writer Charles Didier, of the doctor and writer Horace de Rilliet and many others”.

The Strada Regia, over two thousand years of history from Naples to Reggio Calabria last edit: 2023-04-04T15:08:20+02:00 da Staff

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