The Imperial Fora are considered one of the major monumental constructions of Ancient Rome: the five fora connect to the Roman Forum itself.
Julius Caesar gave inspiration to those who followed him in the Imperial Age, by building the first forum between B.C. 54 – B.C. 46 and which had as main edifice the Temple to Venus Genitrix.
Augustus built a larger forum later in 20 B.C. which was then followed by the Forum of Vespasian which arose around the Temple to Peace, to then be followed by that to Nerva in which was sited a Temple consecrated to Minerva, and finally Trajan’s Forum which comprised the Basilica of Ulpia, the Colonna and the Temple to Trajan - added later by the Emperor Hadrian. Restoration of the surviving monuments was begun during the XIX century and completed in the period between the two World Wars when the arterial road-system of the Imperial Fora was carried out.
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