Located in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitol, it is constituted by a square of almost trapezoidal form between the direction and the Rostrums, on the short sides, and the Basilicas Emilia and Giulia on the long ones. A prolongation in the northern part consists of the rally.
The square was born, as a place for trade and political and judicial activities, at the point where important roads converged (the Sacred Road, the Vicus Tuscus, the Vicus Iugarius, the Clivus Capitolinus, the Argiletum).
Originally the area was partly swampy and used as a burial place since the 10th century BC, as testified by the tombs of the burial discovered in 1902. Some remains of huts and ceramic material found at the archaic burial would suggest houses scattered already in the second half of the 8th century.
The oldest monuments of sacred character, attributed by tradition to the first kings of Rome, date back to the second half of the 6th century BC.
At the beginning of the Republic (509 BC) the temple of Saturn and the Temple of the Diobscuri were built. To the fifth century A. C. Probably dates back to the first tribune of the speakers, placed between the forum and the meeting. In the II A. C are built four basilicas, intended for the administration of justice and the conduct of business. Under Caesar and then Augustus the forum undergoes further changes. At the Augustan age dates the paving in travertine still visible today. In the imperial era there are numerous honorary monuments in the forum area; The last of these is the dedicated column, in 608 D. C. To the Emperor Foca.
The square was born, as a place for trade and political and judicial activities, at the point where important roads converged (the Sacred Road, the Vicus Tuscus, the Vicus Iugarius, the Clivus Capitolinus, the Argiletum).
Originally the area was partly swampy and used as a burial place since the 10th century BC, as testified by the tombs of the burial discovered in 1902. Some remains of huts and ceramic material found at the archaic burial would suggest houses scattered already in the second half of the 8th century.
The oldest monuments of sacred character, attributed by tradition to the first kings of Rome, date back to the second half of the 6th century BC.
At the beginning of the Republic (509 BC) the temple of Saturn and the Temple of the Diobscuri were built. To the fifth century A. C. Probably dates back to the first tribune of the speakers, placed between the forum and the meeting. In the II A. C are built four basilicas, intended for the administration of justice and the conduct of business. Under Caesar and then Augustus the forum undergoes further changes. At the Augustan age dates the paving in travertine still visible today. In the imperial era there are numerous honorary monuments in the forum area; The last of these is the dedicated column, in 608 D. C. To the Emperor Foca.