Travel Photo – Trajan’s Forum in Rome

There are so many forum heritage being found and excavated in Rome, Italy. Forum or Fora (in Latin) is a publlic space or marketplace in ancient Rome civilization. It was also the political, economical and religious centre with various structures constructed by the emperors at that period. This Trajan’s Forum is chronologically the last of the Imperial fora being built during Roman Empire in 106 – 112AD.

Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D60 and Tamron SP10-24mm ultra wide angle lens. Shutter speed 1/250sec and Aperture F8.0. Focus distance was set to 12mm. ISO 100. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and no exposure being compensated with Matrix metering. Image distortion caused by wide angle lens corrected with PS Elements 8.0.

This photo shows only a small part of the actual forum site. Trajan’s Forum covered a large area of 200 x 120m rectangular shape. It featured a large square, a temple, a huge statue of Trajan in a six-horse chariot, as well as a 38m high Trajan’s Column made from marble. Most of the structures were collapsed and buried until being discovered and excavated in late 18th century. What we could see now are just ruins of marble debris and broken pieces of round pillars being re-erected at the original site of a basilica, as well as the Trajan’s Column.

I captured the scene during my trip to Rome last year in May. Many of the remains of these legislative protected forums are found in the centre of Rome, near the more famous Roman Forum site. New buildings were built around these heritage sites with its original appearance kept undisturbed.

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Cecil Lee

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