Moving Experiences incorporate learning, exercise, fun, and travel, either from the comfort of your home or out on the open road with Mark.
The episodes in this series will enrich your travel with fascinating insights from the worlds of history, literature, art, and more, delivered by master storyteller, professor, and lecturer Mark Canada. Whether you like to walk, run, bike, swim, or paddle, you can move and experience the world with Mark.
What better place to start a series of Moving Experiences than a road — and not just any road, but the greatest road of the ancient world, the Via Appia, or, in English, the Appian Way?
This engineering marvel, stretching south from Rome and all the way to the heel of the Italian boot on the eastern shore, is older than the Great Wall of China and has a rich history, which we will explore on our walk today. We will see some of the remnants of this history and imagine others. Finally, I will encourage you to think more broadly about going places in your own life and the ways you take to get to them.
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