Museo dell’Ara Pacis

Home of the altar that the Roman Senate approved in 13 B.C., completed in 9 B.C., which was dedicated to the peace of the augustan age after the great roman conquests in Gaul and Spain. The entire structure is decorated by reliefs both inside and out, including scenes of Aeneas Sacrificing to the Penates, the  Pace-Tellus, the Dea Roma. The monument was discovered in the Sixteenth Century under  Palazzo Fiano (between Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina and Via del Corso) and brought to the light by determined excavations between 1937-38. At that time it was place between the Lungotevere (the bank of the Tiber) and Via di Ripetta, inside a glass pavillion, substituted in 2008 by a new structure designed by  Richard Meier.