Monuments

The Saepta Julia

The SÃ"pta Julia on the Campus Martius. These grandiose porticoes were the meeting place for bargaining of luxury products....

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Tabularium

Built in 78 BC and restored by Claudius in 46 AD, the Tabularium or record office was the repository for official State archives, its arcade of eleven large arches providing a dramatic terminus for the western end of the Forum....

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Aqua Appia

This aqueduct was built in 312 B.C. It was built during the Roman Republic, by Appius Claudius Caecus. This is the oldest aqueduct in Ancient Rome. This aqueduct is sixteen kilometers long. This aqueduct also runs underground. When described in how low it traveled under ground, the Aqua Appia was the lowest. This aqueduct stretched 8 miles to the S...

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Cloaca Maxima

The Cloaca Maxima was one of several large ditches that drained water from inhabited areas of the City of Rome. The Cloaca Maxima drained the valleys between the Esquiline, Viminal, and Quirinal Hills, as illustrated here:...

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The Temple of Veiovis

The Temple of Veiovis was only brought to light in 1939, during the excavation underneath Piazza del Campidoglio for the creation of the Gallery Junction. The parts of the building which make up the Palazzo Senatorio are superimposed both over the temple and over the nearby Tabularium, thereby managing to obscure the Roman building almost completel...

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The Temple of Hercules Victor

The Temple of Hercules Victor is often misnamed the Temple of Vesta, maybe because it is similar in size and shape to the temples of the Goddess of the Hearth. It is dedicated to Hercules, the patron of oil sellers and is made of Greek marble from Mount Pentelicus. The central cell is surrounded by 20 corinthian columns and has an entrance on its e...

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Rome Monuments

List of the greatest historical architecture from the Roman Empire...

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Monuments of Rome

Rome, the Eternal City is renewed for its various monuments.Here follows a list of the main ones....

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