![]() The Roman Forum has an entrance fee and the Roman Domus are visited by reservation, the rest can be visited for free. It’s a must a short passage: to the Cathedral of San Rufino, in the parking of Piazza Matteotti and inside via of the Amphitheatre, around which an entire medieval quarter was born on the ruins of the Roman Amphitheatre. It is difficult to list briefly the totality of the Roman ruins located in Assisi, some of which are located inside private residences and business activities. Entering from a the small entrance of via Portica, we fall below the medieval square, returning to admire the rich and refined Roman Assisi it is an experience with a strong visual and emotional impact. The place was dominated, then as today, by the imposing Temple of Minerva, the present church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva they were placed: the monumental court, with the podium and the seats for the judiciary, the tetrastyle temple dedicated to the Dioscuri, the cistern and the tabernae. ![]() The focus of social, economic and administrative of Assisi’s life was the Roman Forum, still visible under the current Piazza del Comune. The wedding picture found in the bedroom (cubiculum) of the mistress and the refined mosaic floor are examples of the huge archaeological importance of that discovery and they are a real joy for the eyes. Located seven meters below street level, the domus has beautiful mosaics and frescoes in exceptional state of preservation, as you can admire only in Rome and Pompeii. Inside we can see the typical structure of the Roman house, with a garden porch (peristyle) on which revolve other household rooms. It is the last in order of time to be discovered and restored. The Domus of Lararium, built in the imperial era, is located under some historical buildings of Assisi (the Civil Court of Giampè Palace, a building used for the Calendimaggio feast and the Cardinale Palace) and it has significant dimensions (500 square meters of living space). In this noble domus we still see some frescoed rooms with marble floor mosaic, a covered porch with Pompeian style decorations, composed of branches and small flowers on which it bases colorful birds. The first one is located under the apse of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, in front of the place where St. ![]() All this monuments has come down intact to us because the medieval city was built on and or around the remains of the roman one I wonder, then, what there might be undiscovered! Temple of Minerva – AssisiĮxamples of the hidden wonders inside Assisi underground are two patrician houses found recently: the Domus of Propertius (I century d.C.) and the Domus of Lararium. The roman domus, discovering and restored in recent decades, have just completed a framework consisting of important finds in excellent condition: two forums, the amphitheater, the circus, the theater, the funeral tower of Gens Petronas, some monumental cisterns for water, to name only the most important one. In the era of ancient Rome, in fact, Asisium was an important reference for the territory, wealthy merchants who owned luxury villas inhabited it and it was renowned as a thermal town. There is, however, an equally beautiful city, little known, hidden among the medieval remains: is the Roman Assisi. Francis: magnificent churches, stone houses rose, antique artwork, fortresses and monasteries. In “The Llanuca” they find the big houses, comparable with the current mansions with approximately 1.200 m².Millions of tourists visit Assisi because it is the home of St. Both have concerning 700 m² and families of medium and high social class. This building is denominated “casae” or “tugurium” and the family living together with the animals.In front and crossing the actually route to Retortillo stay the “House of The Firedogs” and attached to this one, the “House of The Mosaics” partially excavated. ![]() Near the forum there are situated the remains of a humble neighborhood, constituted by small structures from 15 to 35 m². In the same place was constructed in the XIIth century a Romanesque Church calling Santa Maria de Retortillo. In the forum there is the foundation of a small temple dedicated to Jupiter (protector of Rome) and August (founder of the city). In spite of it, today we known the two principal streets, the “cardum” and the “decumanum”, and part of the Roman forum, placed in the crossing of two routes. At the present there has been excavated 5-10 % of his urban tracing.
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