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 | PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA FRAZZETTA
| | By Whitney Johnson, Director of Visual and Immersive Experiences
The saying goes: All roads lead to Rome. That phrase was inspired by the Via Appia (the Appian Way), a Roman-era “superhighway” that has all but disappeared.
In centuries past, the Appian Way symbolized the Roman Empire’s might. Now, Italy is restoring the ancient road, hoping to create a pilgrimage route through history.
Italian photographer Andrea Frazzetta, who traveled the Appia for us, is very passionate about his heritage. “As a photographer I was initially interested in the subject because of the beauty of the itinerary and the photographic opportunity it presented to me,” Andrea said.
“Now that I have delved deeper, I realize that we are talking about an invaluable heritage that risked disappearing, and it is time for the country to recover this itinerary and enhance its memory.” (Pictured above, the Arch of Drusus, the start of the planned 360-mile Appia walking journey.)
Andrea’s life, however, began at the end. His family roots are in Brindisi, where the ancient Roman highway stops.
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| | ‘La Dolce Vita’: Federico Fellini shot the opening scene of his classic movie on the field of Gerini Quadraro—just a few yards from the ancient aqueducts in Rome. Pictured above, Niccolò Bassotti practices with his soccer team on the pitch. | | | |
| | ‘No Time to Die’: That’s the James Bond film that features 007 leaping from this bridge, the Ponte dell’Acquedotto, near the Appia’s path in Gravina in Puglia. Attracting film productions is one way that southern Italy hopes to raise its economic prospects. | | | |
| | Last steps: The Appia would have run to the gate to Brindisi before likely becoming the main street. Two ornately carved columns were erected above the port and thought to mark the end of the road. Today only one column remains (pictured above); its mate was given to a neighboring city centuries ago. | | | |
| On a moonless night: Andrea shot this long-exposure photo of a church in Sanzanello lit by stars and the glow of the city. A nearby necropolis was recently discovered during excavations along the Appia.
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| | Just blips: The little dots in his rudimentary photos were the only evidence of the first sharks Thomas P. Peschak, then 16, had seen in the wild. He tells Nat Geo that for more than two decades since, the Nat Geo Explorer has been diving throughout the world to photograph the fascinating—and often fear-provoking—fish. (Pictured above, blacktip sharks circle in the depths of South Africa’s Aliwal Shoal.)
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 | | I’m very persistent at knocking on the door, and the door eventually always opens. | | | | José Andrés | Chef, co-founder of World Central Kitchen
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| | Wrestling for peace: While spending a year in the Amazon, photographer Loren McIntyre discovered that wrestling matches were hosted to foster peace between groups. Nat Geo’s senior photo archivist, Sara Manco, selected his image of a wrestler from the Waura tribe (alternatively spelled Wauja or Waujá). The photo appeared in the October 1972 issue. Loren McIntyre would spend most of his career traveling, photographing, and writing about South America. Glance at other Nat Geo archival images here.
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