Rome Trajan Markets & Imperial Forum Private Tours Skip the Line

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Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali

• Continue then with a special guided tour of the “Trajan’s Market in Rome is one of the most interesting archaeological sites in Italy: Trajan’s Market in Rome. Excavated between 1924 and 1936, its restoration is one of the special achievements of Italy’s historic preservation. Built by the ambitious and successful general Marcus Ulpius Traianus (53-117 AD) they became the stone testament of a great Roman ruler. A fascinating guided tour of the most important commercial and administrative centre of the ancient times, almost intact, the Trajan’s Markets.
• The Trajan’s Markets are located along Via dei Fori Imperiali and it represent a unique case among the remains of the ancient world, as it was a huge commercial centre developing on six floors.
• The Markets of Trajan are an archaeological complex with absolutely unique characteristics in Rome. The monument has lived the evolution of the city from the Imperial Age to the present day: strategic administrative center of the Imperial Forum, aristocratic residence, military fortress, prestigious convent and barracks.
• The complex, made of red brick and concrete, had six levels in which there was once up to 150 different shops and apartments, now the Trajan's Market hosts the Museum of the Imperial Forums referred the Markets of Trajan were an integral part.
• The extensive complex of Roman buildings in brick, known as Trajan's Market, is miraculously come down to us from the heart of the ancient city, in close connection with the large squares of the Imperial Forums, and still is in the center of the modern city.
• Today visitors can walk along the main shopping street, the Via Biberatica, or through one of the complex's corridors, along the rooms that once housed the tabernae. During the guided tour, visitors can have access to the high terraces of the complex where they can admire the underlying area of fori imperiali, one of the most extraordinary view of the eternal city. the guide will also explain the whole fori area from this peculiar perspective

Via dei Fori Imperiali

Start your experience through the Ancient Rome with an enjoyable walking across Imperial Fora. It is a series of monumental fora (public squares), constructed in Rome over about one and half centuries, which were the heart of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Discover with this external visit the main ruins of the greatness of Rome from the early disruption of the Republic till the Imperial Age.

Colonna Traiana

• Built in 113 AD to celebrate the deeds of Emperor Trajan in Dacia, the Trajan Column was the first cochlid column - with decorations that spiral along the shaft - ever erected.
• The Column, designed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus on the initiative of Trajan himself, reaches almost 40 meters including the base and indicates the original height of the Quirinal saddle, cut to create Trajan's Forum of which the column is the only monument that has come down to us practically intact.
• Trajan's Column is made up of 17 colossal rocks - cylindrical shaped elements - monolithic, with a diameter of almost 4 metres. These spirally wrap the column with 23 turns of marvelous reliefs: almost 200 meters of precious white marble that could be unrolled like a film. A film that recounts the victorious military campaigns conducted by Trajan against the Dacians to secure the borders of the Empire on the Danube. Inside there is a spiral staircase of 185 steps that leads to the top.
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