Once Upon a Time
(A memory from May 2004)
The Roman Forum
Ancient Rome is considered the Roman civilization from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
The civilization began as a settlement on the Italian Peninsula, in 753 BC, that grew into the city of Rome. The Roman Empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population at the time) covering 5.0 million square kilometres at its height in AD 117.
The Roman Forum is a rectangular plaza surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in all history. the Forum is located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills. Today the Forum is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations.
(Wikipedia)
(Canon PowerShot S400, 125 @ f 7.1) Edited to Taste.
Once Upon a Time
(A memory from May 2004)
The Roman Forum
Ancient Rome is considered the Roman civilization from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
The civilization began as a settlement on the Italian Peninsula, in 753 BC, that grew into the city of Rome. The Roman Empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population at the time) covering 5.0 million square kilometres at its height in AD 117.
The Roman Forum is a rectangular plaza surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in all history. the Forum is located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills. Today the Forum is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations.
(Wikipedia)
(Canon PowerShot S400, 125 @ f 7.1) Edited to Taste.