The world's first covered shopping complex — a multi-level marvel of Roman engineering above the imperial forums.
Explore → Get Early AccessOften called the world's first shopping mall — a six-level semicircle of shops, offices, and streets carved into the Quirinal hill, astonishingly intact. The museum inside makes imperial Rome's forums finally make sense.
Apollodorus of Damascus built it around 110 AD alongside Trajan's Forum, engineering a hillside into commerce. Through medieval fortress years and convent years, the complex simply never fell down.
The great hall's concrete cross-vaults — spanning a market street with clerestory light — anticipate Gothic architecture by a thousand years. Trajan's Column next door contains a spiral staircase and once held the emperor's ashes in its base.
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