The site of Julius Caesar’s assassination has been opened to tourists in Rome’s Torre Argentina Square, reports The Guardian.
The historic site will be accessible to the public for the first time in over a hundred years. The square contains four temples from the 3rd century BC and the remains of Pompey’s Theatre. It was at his stage, as the legend says, that in 44 BC the conspirators attacked Julius Caesar and the famous exclamation of the emperor sounded: “And you, Brutus?”
True, “no bloody marks or a cross can be found at the murder site – only a heap of limestone rocks, bricks and tufts of grass,” the newspaper writes.
Previously, it was possible to see historical objects only from afar: the ruins are located below the level of the modern street. Now a footpath has been built to them, the source informs.
The temple complex and the Theater of Pompey were discovered in 1927 during construction work. By the way, tourists will not be the only visitors to the ancient ruins – they will have to share the route with local cats, the newspaper notes. It was the homeless tailed ones who have long chosen the ruins, and in the 1990s a shelter was opened for them, located right on the territory of the square.