The Forum
Trajan's
Column is the great lighthouse beacon of the Forum. It was built in 113AD, and is the one part of the Forum that I remembered accurately. However, when I was last in Rome, I remember cars driving around it. Now, it is on the edge of the Augustus Forum, which was an excavated area that stretched from the old Forum I remembered over to Trajan's Market.
The columns at left (above) and the field (below) are from the Temple of Vesta, dedicated to the Vestal Virgins.
The three dramatic Corinthian columns at right are from the Temple of Castor and Pollux.
This grand church is actually behind the porch of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (141 AD). The columns were quite massive.
On the west end of the Forum is the grand arch of Septimius Severus, from 203 AD.
