[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

I was blessed to be able to finally see Rome a few years ago and was amazed to see that the Roman Senate building is still standing.

I was miffed that the tour group traipsed right past such a historic place without so much as a peak inside.

Thought about lagging behind to get a look, but didn't want to get separated from the group.

The tour was like being in the Foreign Legion.... "March or Die!"

[Cincinatus]

I was blessed to be able to finally see Rome a few years ago and was amazed to see that the Roman Senate building is still standing. I was miffed that the tour group traipsed right past such a historic place without so much as a peak inside.

The existing Senate building in the forum only dates from the 1930's or so. Over the history of Rome, the original Curia has been destroyed and re-built many times.

When Julius Caesar was assassinated, the Senate was meeting in the Theater of Pompey, north of the Capitoline hill on the Field of Mars (Campus Martius).

[SunkenCiv]

There’s also a spot in Rome where people still lay flowers, it’s the place where Julius Caesar was cremated, a place of a huge gathering of people with an enormous outpouring of grief back at the time.