The Appian Way: enhancement of the landscape between nature and culture from Rome to Capua

The research has as its objective the development of a survey methodology to be developed in a GIS environment designed to spatially analyze the archaeological and natural heritage of the stretch of the Appian Way from Rome to Capua. The analytical method is aimed at supporting actions for the protection of cultural and environmental heritage. With regard to Appia Antica further insights are necessary pertaining not only to the exact path but also to the cultural and botanical landscape which although being modified it is still recognizable in some traces; you may think of the row of pine trees that still characterizes some sections of the road. The more detailed study of the settlement structure of Roman society present in Upper Campania together with the study of settlement structures of pre-Roman societies, was a first step for the development of the mapping of archaeological evidences relating to Appia Antica in Northern Campania and Southern Lazio.