Forum of Trajan
Trajan’s Forum—Forum Traiani in Italian—was the last of the Imperial fora to be built in ancient Rome, and it was all commissioned by Emperor Trajan. What you’re looking at today marks a real feat of power: its construction used the spoils of the conquest of Dacia, a war that ended in 106. Work started sometime between 105 and 107, and the complex was inaugurated in 112, according to the Fasti Ostienses. The story doesn’t slow down, either—Trajan’s Column was erected and inaugurated in 113, turning the forum into a kind of political billboard in stone. To make space for this monumental complex, workers removed a ridge linking the Quirinal and Capitoline hills. More than 300,000 cubic meters of soil and rock were excavated and dumped outside Porta Collina. …
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