The Roman Forum is filled with ruins. Seriously. Its hard to blog about. There is just so much stuff. Columns, basilicas, temples, and statues. Everything you ever wanted to know about history is here. And its beautiful. (This is coming from someone who has a hard time picturing how rocks would have looked thousands of years ago!)
"The Temple of Saturn (Latin: Templum Saturni or Aedes Saturnus) is a monument to the agricultural deity Saturn, that stands at the western end of the Forum Romanum in Rome. It represents the oldest-surviving foundation in that area, having been established between 501 and 498 BC."
Here I am standing underneath the Arch of Septimius Severus.
Oh where to start? Let's just call this the Roman Forum.
This is the side of the House of the Vestal Virgins. "The priestesses who tended the sacred flame in the Temple of Vesta lived here. The house was originally a large rectangular building around a central garden." The grass in this picture is the central garden.
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