Significant buildings and areas




Public buildingsedit

  • Baths of Trajan – these were a massive thermae, a bathing and leisure complex, built in ancient Rome starting from 104 AD and dedicated during the Kalends of July in 109.
  • Baths of Diocletian – in ancient Rome, these were the grandest of the public baths (thermae), built by successive emperors
  • Baths of Caracalla
  • Colosseum
  • Trajan's Column, in Rome
  • Circus Maximus, in Rome
  • Curia Hostilia (Senate House), in Rome
  • Domus Aurea (former building)
  • Forum of Augustus
  • Hadrian's Villa
  • Pantheon
  • Tower of Hercules
  • Tropaeum Traiani
  • Verona Arena, in Verona
  • Rotunda Church of St. George, Serdika, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Roman theatre, Philippopolis, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • Roman Stadium, Philippopolis, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • Roman baths, Odessos, Varna, Bulgaria
  • Roman city walls of Diocletianopolis (Thrace), Hisarya, Bulgaria
  • Roman tomb, Primorsko, Bulgaria

Private architectureedit

  • Alyscamps – a necropolis in Arles, France, one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world
  • Domus
  • Catacombs of Rome
  • Roman villa
  • Pompeii and Herculaneum

Civil engineeringedit

  • Roman engineering – Romans are famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments, although some of their own inventions were improvements on older ideas, concepts and inventions.
  • Roman watermill

Military engineeringedit

  • Antonine Wall, in Scotland
  • Hadrian's Wall
  • Limes Germanicus

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