You knew this was coming
Eborr and more ruins
This is a view of the Forum looking Northwest-ish the Palatine is in the background
Pretty much 180 degree reverse from the Forum looking towards the Capitol - the structure at the bottom is the Tabularum, which is where the Romans kept their records, and built above it is the Palazzo Sentatorio which is a medieval building, I love it when you see buidings being constructed on top of other buildings like this
Another example of Roman stuff being re-used a temple becomes a church - nice when it happended - in fact more of the destruction of the great buildings of Rome was due to the Church than barbarians, from time to time various popes ordered the destruction of wonderful building to nick the marble for their rancid structures.
Having said that my favourite buiding in Rome survived because it became a church the wonderful Pantheon, I was only able to get these pcis late today, I had two meetings at either end of the city - and so was only able to get across here at about 5.30 pm - then the camera batteries ran out
some interiors
If you do one thing in life, go to the Pantheon and look up.
I was irritated by the pompous notice saying that this was a Christian place of worship and should be respected as such, oh for the Lupercale
back to the forum and some detail of the arch of Septimus serverus
finally one of the palaces of the imperial era
think it was Tiberius it's the scale of the thing - don't know if you can pick out the small door, but it's man size