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Abstract:  If the war has always been the most violent, unexpected, traumatic and devastating cause of impairment of urban form, for Albano Laziale, instead, it was only a pretext of transformation. Born on the ruins of a Roman castrum, the town that has its roots in the myths of Aeneas and Alba Longa, drew from Appian way the same reasons of its own history, establishing with it an osmotic relationship that tied it in over time even more firmly to Rome. It absorbed gradually in its structure the Consular, and turned it into street and squares included within the walls. Albano’s town testified on the road the primitive castellum, so its monumental entrance from the capital city, which was expression of its urban identity. The 18th century simultaneously marked the culmination of the process and the beginning of dissolution, stubbornly implemented from the first 20th century and completed after the Second World War. At the last time the urban stretch of Appian way would return to be only a (unpretentious) thoroughfare.

Keywords: Albano Laziale; Via Appia; Second World Ward; John Bryan Ward-Perkins; Monuments Allied Commission Control