Rome - Penultimate day

Rome - 25th October 2013

Today we decided to go to the Fori. We had looked down on them on Monday or Tuesday and thought well we have seen them but there was a niggle there... we felt that there was something missing so we headed out to the Vittorio Emanuele Monument and a walk down the via Imperiale to the one of the entrances to the Forum area.

At Forum level... whatever that means because there are so many levels but this was below the current ground level

Looking across the Via Imperiale towards Trajan's Column

Augustus's Palace
and in the background the penthouse with the garden and best view in Rome

The Palace  - Reworked

Forget the Church in the foreground, the Curia is behind it, where the Roman Senate met.

The Vittorio Emanuelle Monument mimics the Forum on which it is partly built

The large building started life as the Temple to the Divine Antoninus and his wife the Divine Faustina. Later it was converted into a church and the access from the Column side was lost at some time.

The Julia Temple built by Julius Caesar

Looking towards the Temple of Vesta (The 3 columns in the middle distance.)

Looking across the Rostra (Orator's patch) towards the Curia (I'm sure the windows are new) with the Column of Phocas on the Right. The last honorary column erected about 600 AD 

The Column of Phocas (Italian: Colonna di Foca), is a Roman monumental column in the Roman Forum of Rome, Italy. Erected before the Rostra and dedicated or rededicated in honour of the Eastern Roman Emperor Phocas on August 1, 608, was the last addition made to the Forum Romanum. The fluted Corinthian column stands 13.6 m (44 ft) tall on its cubical white marble socle. On stylistic grounds, the column seems to have been made in the 2nd century for an unknown structure, and then recycled for the present monument. Likewise, the socle was recycled from its original use supporting a statue dedicated to Diocletian; the former inscription was chiselled away to provide a space for the later text. (From Wikipedia)

The  column of Phocas 

with the Temple of Saturn in the centre

The Arch of Severus

The temple of Saturn from below

Looking down the Forum Romanum with the Temple of Julia on the right, followed by the Temple of Castor and pollux then the Temple of Vesta

Part of (a very small p[art of) the Domus of Tiberian which
over looks the Forum on the Right in the preceding piccy

Rick and Ann from Missippi. he was an architect and got to discussing the construction of tyeh Domus