Piazza del Foro
Standing here in Piazza del Foro, you’re in the Roman heart that citizens once called the *Forum Magnum*—the great forum that started life as a marketplace and became the city’s main public square. The *Foro Romano*—also known by its Latin name *Forum Romanum*—is a rectangular forum, framed by the ruins of ancient government buildings in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline hills. For centuries, this space ran the rhythm of Rome: triumphal processions and elections, public speeches and criminal trials, even gladiatorial matches. It was also where commerce and law met, with statues and monuments commemorating leaders right alongside everyday business. On the southeastern edge you had some of the kingdom’s earliest sites, including the *Regia* (linked with the royal residence) and the Temple of Vesta, linked to the Vestal Virgins—both rebuilt after imperial Rome rose. …
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