Layers of Rome

One of my favorite things about Rome is all the different layers that are visible. Things that existed in ancient times, medieval, renaissance, baroque, fascist, and modern times. They're all impossibly close to each other and interact with each other.

Here you can see several layers of Rome

(Left to Right) The theater is from Augustus' time,the apartments above it are medieval, the columns are from the imperial times, the square domed synagogue is post fascism, the yellow building on the right is post renaissance.

Fasces, a symbol in Augustus and Mussolini's times.

 Fasces are bundles of wooden sticks with an axe blade emerging from the center, which is an image that traditionally symbolizes summary power and jurisdiction, and/or "strength through unity".

The theater.

A church that was squeezed in between two temples.

Ruins that are thought to be from between the
occupation of the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline Hill.

A temple to Hercules oddly enough.

Its round shape usually makes
people think it's for a goddess.

A four way arch.

And closer.

Arch of the Argentarii. or Arch of the Money-Changers.

I almost wrote a paper on this but it's been so
damaged it would have been too difficult.

This depicts Septimius Severus and his wife preforming a sacrifice.

This would have depicted Caracalla
and his brother Geta, but Caracalla
had all images of Geta erased.