Echoes
The basements of Diocletian's palace were mostly set up to echo the ground plan at street level above them, so as better to support the structures there. It was quite strange standing in these excellently preserved chambers and imagining the elegant reception halls above in which the former Emperor would have entertained - most of which have now vanished apart from a few bits of wall here and there incorporated into other buildings.
Echoes
The basements of Diocletian's palace were mostly set up to echo the ground plan at street level above them, so as better to support the structures there. It was quite strange standing in these excellently preserved chambers and imagining the elegant reception halls above in which the former Emperor would have entertained - most of which have now vanished apart from a few bits of wall here and there incorporated into other buildings.