Porta Maggiore
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1h
Just outside: the 'Baker's Tomb' — a 1st-century BC tomb shaped like an oven.
Piazzale di Porta Maggiore, 00185 Roma RM, Italy
A massive double archway built by Emperor Claudius in 52 AD where two important roads (the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana) passed beneath two aqueducts (the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus). Later incorporated into the Aurelian Walls as a city gate. Just outside the archway stands the eccentric 'Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker' — a 1st-century BC funerary monument shaped like an oven, decorated with reliefs of bread-making, commissioned by a freedman who became wealthy supplying bread to the Roman state.