The Eternal City just opened the site of Julius Caesar's assassination, a bloody coup that ultimately brought down the Roman Republic.
The Torre Argentina site features a walkway through the four Republican temples dating between the 4th and 1st centuries B.C., among the city's oldest. istory buffs and true crime aficionados have a brand new blockbuster attraction to visit in Rome. On Tuesday, city authorities opened, the ancient site where Julius Caesar was famously assassinated by those in his inner circle, an act that spawned a long series of civil wars and ultimately brought down the Roman Republic.
The remains of Largo Argentina square stand in the middle of one of Rome’s busiest crossroads. The site includes the remains of Pompey’s Theatre and four temples, which date back as far as the 3rd century B.C. and are all below street level, hidden for centuries by layer upon layer of urban development. Behind two of the temples lies the ruins of what archaeologists believe was Pompey's Curia, a large rectangular hall that hosted the Roman Senate at the time Caesar was murdered.
The ancient site was first discovered during demolition work in 1927, when the colossal head and arms of a marble statue were unearthed. On Monday, Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri cut a ceremonial ribbon for the site, a gesture that echoed a displayed black-and-white photograph of Benito Mussolini at a ribbon-cutting in 1929 while the fascist dictator showed off the earliest excavated ruins.
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