Do not miss the Trajan forum during your tours in Rome

DO NOT MISS THE TRAJAN FORUM DURING YOUR TOURS IN ROME

When the poet Vergil wrote his words of praise in the late first century before Christ the Roman empire was still growing. A little more than a century later the poet’s proud came true and Rome indeed ruled the world as it was known to the Europeans, stretching from the West to Egypt.

The Roman empire reached its greatest extent during the reign of the emperor Trajan. After the assassination of the emperor Domitian in the year 95 AD , the Senate chose a frail old man named Nerva to lead the Roman state since he had no sons : he adopted a successor and made a wise choice: the general Trajan. Scholars have pieced together a biography of Trajan, the first of the Roman emperor not native of Italy: he was born in 53 AD in the province of Spain . His father was a Roman settler and that his mother a local woman.

In addition to an impressive physical appearance, Trajan was energetic, practical , loyal, young and experienced in both military and administrative matters. Although not an intellectual , he thought that Rome must have moments of a grandiose city he also must have been unusually fair-minded to judge Rome as being good the only pagan emperor enshrined in Christian legend.
Trajan sponsored public works projects throughout the empire and many of the greatest monuments to its rule in Rome are the Trajan forum which was the last and largest of the forums constructed by the Roman emperors.The columns are all that remain from the great Hall of justice, the basilica Ulpia: a must see when you have decided to do your trip to Rome.

The Trajan column was built in the second century AD as part of the library complex and the architect who designed this huge Carrara marble column is Apollodorus of Damascus from Syria.

The relief sculpture on the column offers unparalleled record of the Roman military tactics, weapons and rituals and codes of conduct and provides an account of the emperor Trajan military victories over the Dacians.

What a forum has ever been used for ? If we want to know it really well, it was a square, a place where Roman masters freeded their slaves ; the forum was also a place where the emperors burned the lists of debtors and where sometimes the chief of the roman state auctioned off imperial treasures to avoid raising taxes to finance a war.
Part of the forum of Trajan included markets where the world first multilevel indoor shopping mall guested nearly 200 shops that sold goods from all over the empire.

The creation of this great triumph for Rome and its adjoining markets came to fruition with an enormous urban planning project , the one of linking together two sections of Rome which were always separated by a tall narrow natural ridge of tufa rock running from the Quirinal hill to the Capitoline hill.

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