Cultural heritage in danger. Fragments of the Appia Antica from Sinuessa to Mondragone

The world cultural heritage, unfortunately, nowadays is significantly at risk due to both ongoing climate change and war events that bring death, destruction, and irreversible damage to the environment. Art cities, archaeological areas, monuments, and cultural landscapes are in danger of being severely disfigured in their texture and disappearing forever, depleting our identity as inhabitants of the earth. It is necessary, therefore, to monitor the health of cultural heritage to address the major future challenges aimed at protecting and preserving our planet. With the awareness that the recommendations and intervention strategies elaborated by Unesco and the various national and international Observatories must be supported by an action of dissemination of the knowledge of the state of the many cultural assets present in our territories, the contribution proposes to document through the tools of surveying and representation some surviving traces of the via Appia that still preserve the original summum dorsum at the area of ancient Sinuessa up to Mondragone, in the province of Caserta. These are territorial assets not yet valued as they should be, although they represent evidence of civilization and therefore the identity heritage of a place and its inhabitants.