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Trajans Column Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n Trajans Column – Via del Foro di Traiano, Rome, Italy<\/p>\n You can see the Trajans column<\/strong> from a bit away as you walk down the street. It is located in Trajan’s Forum, close to the Quirinal Hill, just north of the Roman Forum. It\u2019s just a short walk from the Roman forum and the Coliseum. As you approach it you begin to notice that it has a lot of drawings on it. It is very tall and the carvings are incredibly detailed and historically significant. It commemorates Roman emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian Wars. Trajans Column<\/strong> is beautifully carved with scenes of the epic battles.<\/p>\n It\u2019s continuous spiral frieze is beautifully sculptured and well-preserved. It features over 2,500 individual drawings, emperor Trajan is placed over 55 times and is larger than every one else. It shows intricate details of troop formations, weapons, ships and more. However the\u00a0carvings at the top of the column are difficult to see from the ground.<\/p>\n It was designed by Apollodorus of Damascus\u00a0and\u00a0was completed in AD 113. Trajan\u2019s column\u00a0stands at 120 ft, composed of 29 drums of Italian white marble. It stands on an 8-block base and is topped by a two-block pedestal.<\/p>\n In the beginning a statue of an eagle was placed on top of the column. However after the death of Trajan it was replaced by a statue of the emperor himself. His ashes were buried within the foundations of the column. In 1587, Pope Sixtus V crowned the top with a bronze figure of St. Peter, which remains to this day.<\/p>\n I think Trajans Column <\/strong>is one of the most stunning and architecturally awe-inspiring\u00a0monuments from ancient Rome. It is\u00a0definitely a monument that should be on everyone\u2019s list of things to see in Rome.\u00a0It\u2019s free to look at this column from the road and worth the visit, you’ll learn a lot of history.<\/p>\n Trajans Column<\/strong> is located at Via del Foro di Traiano, Rome, Italy.<\/p>\n [\/tab]<\/p>\n [tab name=”Maps”] [map id=”121″] [\/tab][end_tabset]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [tab name=”Description”] Trajans Column Rome Trajans Column – Via del Foro di Traiano, Rome,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,35],"tags":[84,114,242],"class_list":["post-13273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions-in-rome","category-rome-italy","tag-attractions-in-rome","tag-emperor-trajan","tag-trajans-column"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13274,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions\/13274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeareaguide.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}