Pair work by Jessica G. and Alessio M.

IIIrd form/E

Mini-lecture text

Videorecorded and projected to other classes

The port walls

The warehouses were designed and started at the time the new port was built, but were completed over a period of eighty years. The various blocks are separated by ground floor passageways with ramps for lifting loads of goods to the upper storeys.

Design and Building of the System

The present layout of the harbour basin is the result of land reclamation work carried out during the nineteen thirties. In Medieval times, the Diocese converted part of the area into a fish breeding form to cater for the ruling of eating fish on Friday.

The Archeological Area

The whole port system had to be redesigned during Trajan’s reign in order to make it suitable for Rome’s ever more pressing needs as well as for the increasing amount of international maritime traffic. The new complex was inaugurated in the year 112 A.D. after at least 12 years of continuous work that had still not been finished though the main structures had already been completed.

Buildings in the East Section

The port complex project undertaken by Trajan was later continued by his successors, from the time of Trajan up until the time of the Antonines. Approaching the area in front of the basin, ports of the so-called Severiani warehouse stand out most of all (these were actually built during Hadrian's and the Antonines' Empires).