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This amphitheater was built by the Romans when the ancient city of Philippopolis became the Roman capital of the region of Thracia or Thrace. Built on seven hills, the city was founded and named after Philip II of Macedonia centuries before during the Hellenistic period. The city was conquered and occupied many times. Leading up to modern times, this was long a major city in the Ottoman Empire after the fall of Constantinople. Today, it's the beautiful modern city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria which fully embraces it's past and future.
The theater is built in a natural bowl formed by two of the city's seven hills.
Some of the structures, left to right:
1. Palatine Hill
2. Temple of Castor and Pollux
3. Basilica Iulia [Julia] (the flat field
behind the Temple of Castor and Pollux)
4. Temple of Saturn
5. Temple of Vespasian
6. Tabularium and Palazzo Senatorio (the building behind the Temples of Saturn and Vespasian)
7. Arch of Septimus Severus
8. Mamertine Prisons
9. Curia Iulia [Julia]
10. Temple of Romulus
The white structure on the right, with the twin square turrets, towering behind the forum to the northwest, is the Emanuele II Monument of Piazza Venezia.
Photographed May 17, 2019.
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum. (2/26/2019)
Roman snail (Helix pomatia) crawling over an old railway sleeper.
Ślimak winniczek (Helix pomatia) pełznący po starym podkładzie kolejowym.
An amazing view of #roma from the rooftop terraces in Via Margutta.
The street became widely known from the 1953 movie Roman Holiday, a romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, which was set at n° 51.
Photo was taken during my delightful collaboration with Nuna Lie.
Angelica - Roma - Feb 2016
The Roman Forum (Latin: Forum Romanum, Italian: Foro Romano) is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
It was for centuries the center of Roman public life: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history. Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million sightseers yearly.
Source: Wikipedia.org
Just back from computerles oblivion with a brand new 27"Imac!
No textures uploaded yet, still installing! :-)
Roman snail (Helix pomatia) crawling over ground.
Ślimak winniczek (Helix pomatia) pełznący po ziemi.
Templo Romano de Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain.
Its construction began during the reign of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) and ended some forty years later, during the reign of Emperor Domitian (81-96 CE). Presumably it was dedicated to the imperial cult. The temple underwent some changes in the 2nd century, reforms that coincide with the relocation of the colonial forum.
In the area had already been found architectural elements, such as drums of columns, capitals, etc. all in marble, so the area was known as los marmolejos. This area of Córdoba could become between the 1st century and the 2nd century, as the provincial forum of the Colonia Patricia, title that received the city during the Roman rule.
Proportion is a defining characteristic of the Roman Corinthian order: the "coherent integration of dimensions and ratios in accordance with the principles of symmetria" are noted by Mark Wilson Jones, who finds that the ratio of total column height to column-shaft height is in a 6:5 ratio, so that, secondarily, the full height of column with capital is often a multiple of 6 Roman feet while the column height itself is a multiple of 5. In its proportions, the Corinthian column is similar to the Ionic column, though it is more slender, and stands apart by its distinctive carved capital.
The abacus upon the capital has concave sides to conform to the outscrolling corners of the capital, and it may have a rosette at the center of each side. Corinthian columns were erected on the top level of the Roman Colosseum, holding up the least weight, and also having the slenderest ratio of thickness to height. Their height to width ratio is about 10:1.
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The Roman bridge of Córdoba is a bridge in the Historic centre of Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain, originally built in the early 1st century BC across the Guadalquivir river, though it has been reconstructed at various times since. It is also known locally as the Old Bridge as for two thousand years, until the construction of the San Rafael Bridge in the mid-twentieth century, it was the city's only bridge across the river.
Most of the present structure dates from the Arabs reconstruction in the 8th century.
Die Puente Romano (span. „Römische Brücke“) in der spanischen Stadt Córdoba, auch Puente Viejo (span. „Alte Brücke“) genannt, ist eine nach der Schlacht von Munda (45 v. Chr.) von den Römern errichtete Brücke über den Guadalquivir. Sie hat 16 Bögen und war einst Bestandteil der Via Augusta. Im 10. Jahrhundert wurde das Bauwerk von den in Córdoba residierenden maurischen Kalifen vollständig erneuert und nach der Reconquista noch mehrfach renoviert.
Die Brücke wurde außerdem als Drehort für Game of Thrones genutzt und stellt dort die "Lange Brücke von Volantis" dar.
~Wikepedia
Pont Flavien Is a Roman Bridge at Saint-Chamas in southern France. It dates from 12 B.C. and was built to carry the Via Julia Augusta over the Touloubre River. It may be only existing example of a Roman Bridge bounded by triumphal arches.
The Pantheon, from Greek Πάνθειον meaning "[temple] of every god") is a building in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier building commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). The present building was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. He retained Agrippa's original inscription, which has confused its date of construction.
The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft).
It is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings, in large part because it has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs"
Source: Wikipedia.org
There is a Victorian style dome ceiling at the Entrance Reception Hall of the Roman Baths.
Bath; July 2005
For Macro Mondays Redux 2016--My Favorite Theme of the Year:
I think this could go under a few categories, such as
Arrow
In a row
Stripes
When I was a Child
The colour red
I think 'When I was a Child' is most apt as I used to be (and still am) fascinated by Roman artifacts, and evidence of a bygone empire.
Taken with a Raynox M-250 added to the lens to allow close focusing.
From Anzio, Villa Pamphili
I1st-2nd century AD
White marble
Height 155 cm.
cat. 22840
Statue of the god Anubis, here represented according to the Roman style as a personage clad in a toga, but following an "Egyptian" iconography. In his right hand he holds a sistrum, while in the left he has the caduceus of Hermes. Source: mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Schede/MEZs/MEZs_Sala04_07_014...