Ciampino shuttle serviceTourist guide - Foro di Augusto
In 41 BC Augusto won during the battle of Filippi against the assassins of Giulio Cesare, Bruto and Cassio, Then this forum was erected and inaugurated in 2 BC, so as to honour the emperor. The complex was composed of a big square with gates, provided in the centre of a statue of the emperor on a triumphal chariot At the bottom there is the temple of Marte Ultore, The forum was characterized by a colossus of Augusto of 14 metres high; whose remain only the base, and a footprint and the fragments of the bands, Actually one part is buried under Fori lmperiali's road
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