Trajan’s Column in Rome — the carved column among the ruins of his forum
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Trajan’s Column

Trajan’s Column is a stone comic strip almost forty metres tall. A relief spirals up it telling of the wars against the Dacians: more than two thousand figures, with Trajan himself appearing about sixty times.

Unrolled, the strip would run some two hundred metres. It reads from the bottom up, though the upper scenes are hard to make out from the ground — the balconies of neighbouring buildings probably served as viewing points. On top today stands a statue of Saint Peter: the bronze Trajan was taken down sixteen centuries later.

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Time Travel: a family quest tour of Rome (2 hours)
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Time Travel: a family quest tour of Rome (2 hours)
Want your children to fall for history and get interested in art? Worried the teenager will be bored and the youngest will tire quickly? We know how to make it work for everyone.
from 6 years
2 hours
220€
Group of up to 5
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