{"id":566,"date":"2019-10-04T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enqodle.in\/colosseum\/?p=566"},"modified":"2020-11-04T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T09:07:18","slug":"the-roman-forum-via-fori-imperiali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colosseum.info\/es\/the-roman-forum-via-fori-imperiali\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roman Forum – Via Fori Imperiali"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Via Fori Imperiali which runs from piazza Venezia to the colosseum, it is perhaps the most scenic road in Rome.\u00a0 Flanked on both sides by the ancient Roman city centre; on the left the imperial forums built by the emperors and on the right the forum of Caesar, the great forum (forum Romanum) and a portion of the forum of peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

This modern road, <\/span>built in 1932 by Mussolini<\/b> was completed for the 10th anniversary of Mussolini\u2019s Fascist party comping into power.\u00a0 The construction of the road destroyed one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods of the city, bulldozing through 19 city blocks formerly known as the \u2018<\/span>Alessandrino\u2019<\/span><\/i> quarter and displacing over 5,000 residents. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The road also covers large portions of the Forums of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Vespasian (Peace), Nerva, and Trajan. Completed in only 11 months, the archaeologists did not have time to properly catalogue their findings; still decades later it is impossible to say which forum many artefacts came from. The bronze statues of the emperors that still decorate the road were added by Mussolini in an effort to pay tribute to the emperors whose forums he destroyed. One emperor is missing \u2013 Vespasian, father of the <\/span>Flavian Dynasty (COL?FLAV DYN)<\/span>; no statues of him were placed in his forum and Mussolini had no idea that the <\/span>Forum of Peace<\/b> was, in fact, <\/span>Vespasian\u2019s forum<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tourism in Rome grew in the 1950\u2019s thanks to popular movies like \u2018Roman Holiday\u2019, by the 1960s the Via Fori Imperiali became one of the Grand Boulevards in Europe. Soon it was a main thoroughfare in Rome, with so much traffic that the monuments began to turn black from the exhaust fumes.\u00a0 By 2013, Rome had one of the worst traffic problems of Europe, with over 1,600 vehicles traversing Via Fori Imperiale every hour during peak times. When <\/span>Ignazio Marino<\/b>, became Mayor in 2013, his first official edict was to <\/span>ban public traffic<\/b> from Via Fori Imperiali. Today, traffic is limited to taxis, buses, and official vehicles only, and is entirely pedestrian on Sundays.\u00a0 At night it takes on a personality of its own, with enhanced lighting creating an ambience that has an ethereal quality thanks to the ruins of Ancient Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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