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Fig. 1.
General View of the
Traiano’s Markets and
Forum area.
Taken from the
site: http://www.
mondosegreto.eu/
Siti%20Roma05%20
ForiImperiali.htm
The Exhibition at the Traiano’s Markets and at
the Museum of the Imperial Forum as Example
of Dialogue and Interaction with the Ancient
anna Maria loiacono, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
The history and structure of Traiano’s Markets and of the Museum of the
Imperial Forum
The area of the Imperial Forum and Traiano’s Markets is characterized
by overlapping layers and rearrangements that have seen
over the centuries to change the configuration and the usage of the
environments and the ruins that compose the archaeological site.
Over time, the structure of this area is shaped through the life, the
constructions, the use that characterized the various ages. In the
Middle Age was built the Milizie’s tower and garden and a noble
residential area that enriched the space of the normal activities and
of the homes. In the Renaissance, the complex was occupied by the
Convent of St Catherine of Siena and by a busy town and in the
eighteenth century by a military barracks. In the years from the 1926
to 1932 was begun the work of restoration and excavation together
with the large-scale projects for the construction of the road of Fori
Imperiali. This succession of uses, revaluations, remodelings of the
entire complex had in the restorations of the year 2006 the rightful
place of investigation and research (fig. 1).
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