Rome
Markets of Trajan
The Oldest Shopping Mall
Via 4 Novembre
Rome, 00187
Nearest Train: Repubblica
Phone: +39 06 67 90 048
Fax: +39 06 69 78 05 32
WebsiteThis is probably the oldest shopping center in the world. Built by the Emperor Trajan in the 2nd Century CE, it consisted of 150 offices and shops selling food, flowers, jewelry and wool. The finest shops were decorated with mosaics depicting the merchandise on sale. Today the shops are intact, but empty, even though, when the wine-shops were rediscovered, they were full of amphors of wine. The offices on the floor above organized the distribution of free rations of corn to the citizens of Rome.
Open Hours: Ma-Do: Inverno 9:00-16:30, Estate 9:00-18:30 (Chiude il Lunedì)
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