Roman Architecture

one of the largest and most well-preserved sites of Greek and Roman architecture in the world outside Italy

The city of Leptis Magna provides a vivid and full picture of life in a Roman provincial city during the early and middle periods of the Roman Empire

In his letter, Pliny wrote that the Tragedy villa was atop a ridge above the lake, but the Comedy villa was right on the water's edge and that "each of them has particular beauties; a diversity which renders them to their master as still more agreeable." According to the letter, Pliny had derived the villas' names from their geographical positions and the conventions of Roman theatre.

Category:Roman villas in Italy

Dedicated in 315, it is the largest Roman triumphal arch, with overall dimensions of 21 m (69 ft) high, 25.9 m (85 ft) wide and 7.4 m (24 ft) deep.

Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.

'Ancient Ostia') is the modern name given to the ancient Roman city of Ostia.

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.

Timgad or Thamugadi (colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi in latin, Arabic: تيمقاد, romanized: Tīmqād,) , nicknamed the «Pompeii of north africa» was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria.

Volubilis (Latin pronunciation: [wɔˈɫuːbɪlɪs]; Arabic: وليلي, romanized: walīlī; Berber languages: ⵡⵍⵉⵍⵉ, romanized: wlili) is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco, situated near the city of Meknes, that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II.

It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family.

The Arena of Nîmes (French: Arènes de Nîmes; Occitan: Arena de Nimes) is a Roman amphitheatre in Nîmes, Southern France.

The Amphitheatre in Pula (Croatian: Amfiteatar u Puli; Italian: Anfiteatro di Pola), better known as the Pula Arena (Croatian: Pulska Arena; Italian: Arena di Pola), is a Roman amphitheatre located in Pula, Istria, Croatia.

Hadrian's Wall is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.

The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes).

Vitruvius ( vi-TROO-vee-əs; Latin: [wɪˈtruːwi.ʊs]; c.

He is one of the few architects whose name survives from antiquity, and is credited with introducing several Eastern innovations to the Roman Imperial style, such as making the dome a standard.

Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.

The remains of the city, especially the temples where Hellenistic and Roman architecture blend with Eastern decorative features, attest to the greatness of its civilization.

The cultural traditions of the Roman Imperial period are reflected in the outstanding representative buildings of the city centre including the Celsus Library, Hadrian’s Temple, the Serapeion and Terrace House 2, with its wall paintings, mosaics and marble panelling showing the style of living of the upper levels of society at that time.