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- Rome shore excursion from Civitavecchia
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- Visit Rome Vatican Museums
- Visit Rome Vatican's Sixtine Chapel
- Visit Rome's Trevi Fountain
- Visit Rome's Piazza Navona
- Visit Rome's Circus Maximus
- Visit Rome's Constantine Arch
- Visit Rome's Spanish Steps
- Visit St Peter Basilica in Rome
- Visit Rome Pantheon
- Visit the Mouth of Truth of Rome
- Visit St Mary above Minerva in Rome
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The Trajan Forum
Rome, in the first century AD, counted more than a million of habitants and the only area of the Roman Forum from the part of the Capitol Hill was not enough, either for the growing population, or for the continuous construction of temples, basilicas and monuments.
The commercial discourse started then to become too tightened, for the increasing expansion of the dominations in Rome and the relative commercial exchanges to maintain.
It was for this reason that the emperor Trajan (born in Italica, ancient Roman city near Sevilla, Spain in 53 before Christ), returning victorious from the war against the Daces (actual Romanians) having conquered the east out of the confinements of Italy, decided after the celebration of his triumph to commemorate his victory building a complex that would have surpassed the other Fora both in splendour that in dimensions.
Trajan submitted the project to the great architect Apollodorus of Damascus, that removed a great part of the base of the Quirinal Hill making to become the Forum the place more admired of the city.
A big monument to the victory on the Daces and their chief Decebalus is without doubt the great Trajan column formed by nineteen blocks of Carrara marble restored after 19 centuries and brought to its original shine, that narrates as in a movie with a spiral sculpture around the column the epic stories of the conquest of the Dacia: a kind of helicoidal ribbon that represents the armies and the uses and customs of Romans and Daces, included the bridge built by Trajan to come in Dacia and the fortresses he attacked.
A structure of three floors finally constituted the Trajan Markets, semi-circulars, with the enormous plaza of the market for the massive amount of exchanges effectuated. The portico which races around the ground floor and to the first floor, with numerous arches, makes look the markets like an enormous basilica.
The Imperial fora are considered an extension and an embellishment of the old republican Roman Forum and can conveniently be lectured and commented from a minibus with air conditioned and an expert local driver tour guide.
Few people also can tell you that near the Imperial Forum there was the house of Michelangelo where the great artist from Caprese (province of Arezzo, near Florence in Tuscany) lived and died when he was 89 years old.
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