The main portion of the road, named after the censor who ordered its construction, was completed in 312 BC. Dubbed "queen of the long roads" by the poet Statius, its route eventually reached Brindisi in the southeast following the defeat of the Samnites. What road's initial stretch was also a key component of Allied plans to advance on Rome following the 1944 landings at Anzio?
APPIAN WAY (VIA APPIA)