Via Sacra Rome

... Right next door are the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill. We strode up the old roman road (via Sacra) to Palatine Hill where legend says Romulus founded Rome. It is also where the rich romans built their houses. We were overwhelmed with the sheer ...

... a guidebook, I imagined hundreds of booths crowded into Trajan's forum with spices and meats, fresh fish and imports. I stood on Via Sacra in the Roman Forum and imagined all of the ceremonious processions that have marched along it, with the ...

... the forum. Everything is so ancient (obviously). I'm reading stuff about the emperors etc as we go along and identify the Curia, the Via Sacra and the Arch of Septimius Severus. We exit the forum from the other entrance and are back in the vicinity of ...

... .) The views of Palantine hill and the Forum from the Colliseum were very good, and we set our course along the Via Sacra (Sacred Way) and continued into the ancient ruins. Coming from North America where everything is measured in centuries or ...

... were destroyed by Pope Julius II in the early 1500s and pillaged for building materials as he rebuilt Rome.       Interesting spots along the Via Sacra include the Temple of Julius Caesar which was built on the spot where Caesar’s ...

... (which also served civic functions for the Senate), Temple of Vespasian, Temple of Saturn (which housed the treasury of ancient Rome), the Via Sacra, Temple of Divus Julius (dedicated to the deified Julius Ceasar) and the Arch of Septimus Servus. As we ...

... way along the track, then turned back to the rear of the Palantine hill up the Via San Teodoro, past the back of the Via Sacra & up the steps to the Capitoline Hill.  We walked around onto the pedestrian hill/ steps leading back to the ...

... imagine the once gleaming white buildings topped with golden roofs and pople walking around in toga's and chariots racing through the Via Sacra. I viewed the Arch of Titus, the massive Basilicia of Constantine as l walked upon the same large basalt ...

... overlooking the courtyard bathtub in the House of the Vestal Virgins, six pure women who were in charge of keeping Rome's sacred flame alive. The Via Sacra, which bisects the Roman Forum, is where "all roads" lead, and with a little imagination, is like ...

... from the top of the Palatine hill.   Constantine’s Arch, just on the edge of the Via Sacra (the main thoroughfare of ancient Rome) is exceptionally well preserved. It was erected in marble by Emperor Constantine in 312 AD to celebrate ...