Description of the attraction
This magnificent monument of monumental architecture of the era of the reign of Emperor Trajan was created by his architect Apollodorus of Damascus. The forum was erected in 106-113 AD on government subsidies that grew as a result of the victorious war with the Dacians that ended a few years earlier. The dimensions of the forum are immense: 300 meters long and 185 meters wide. To build the Forum of Trajan, it was necessary to cut off the top of the Quirinal Hill, and Apollodorus of Damascus brilliantly coped with this task.
The dedication of Trajan's Column took place in 113 AD; its total height reaches almost 40 meters. At its top was a statue of Trajan, which has now been lost. In 1587, Pope Sixtus V ordered to replace it with the statue of St. Peter. The column serves as a tombstone for Trajan: a door opening at the base of the column leads to the hall where the urn with the emperor's ashes is placed. The Column's trunk bends around a spiral of a continuous frieze 200 meters long and about 1 meter high - this is a documentary story about Trajan's two victorious battles against the Dacians in 101-102 and 105-106 AD.
Trajan's Market is a huge brick semicircle. Shops open on the lower floor; the benches on the upper floor adjoin the cliff where the cut of the hill was cut. The third tier of the ensemble includes a road that rises steeply upward. Many more shops, offices, portable counters, as well as a basilica complemented this architectural ensemble, consisting of six floors.
