Forum of Nerva
09:00 - 19:00
Free
1h
Smallest of the Imperial Fora. Two distinctive 'Colonnacce' columns survive. Free (street view)
Via dei Fori Imperiali, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
The fourth and smallest Imperial Forum, begun by Domitian and finished by Nerva in 97 AD. Domitian cleverly converted the existing Argiletum street — a busy thoroughfare lined with booksellers and cobblers — into a long monumental passage, which is why this forum is unusually narrow. The two surviving 'Colonnacce' (the 'big ugly columns,' as Romans nicknamed them) are part of the Temple of Minerva and feature a beautiful frieze of women weaving and spinning.