Museum

Ara Pacis Augustae

📍 Municipio Roma I, Roma🏗 -0008-01-0

You’re standing by the Ara Pacis Augustae—the “Altar of Augustan Peace”—built as a deliberately public expression of the Pax Romana. On July 4, 13 BC, the Roman Senate commissioned it to mark Augustus’s return to Rome after three years in Hispania and Gaul. The consecration followed on January 30, 9 BC, turning this from an idea into a ritual center for civic religion. Originally, the altar sat on the northern outskirts of Rome, a Roman mile from the boundary of the pomerium on the west side of the Via Flaminia. Over time, the old flood plain of the Campus Martius swallowed it—its surroundings accumulated up to 4 metres (13 ft) of silt. That’s why its story has a second life: in 1938, it was reassembled here as the Museum of the Ara Pacis and rotated 90° counterclockwise, so the side that once faced west now faces south. …
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