Basilica Emilia

BASILICA EMILIA

 

 

This is how the basilica is supposed to look when they had just constructed it .This wonderful place got its name after its founder a magistrate marco emilio lepido who found it in 179 b.c. IT is 328 feet long and 30 meter feet wide. Along the side are two orders of sixteen arches and it was accessed through one of three entrance, the central entrance. it was used as a civil court , a commercial activities and when there was bad climate. down it had some rooms used to sell there are two colums made of marble followed by a row of shops built with block of tufa. the basilica emilia is near via alessandria, via del fori imperiali and via del colosseo. the basilica emilia was victim of a fire which forced the people that live near it to rebuild it. This how the basilica looks after many years. it has gone through many natural disasters.