Arco di Giano
Historic site · Ripa, Italy
A four-fronted arch on via del Velabro, square in plan, on four piers under a groin vault carrying a high attic, built in brick faced with marble, much of it spoil. Two rows of three niches on each pier originally held 48 statues; only the four female figures on the keystones survive, read as Roma, Juno and perhaps Minerva and Ceres. Turismo Roma states that it is always visible from the outside. No source states its opening hours, so none are given here.
History
The last monumental building put up in the eastern Forum Boarium. The name is a sixteenth-century misnomer: the arch is probably the Arcus Divi Constantini of the fourth-century Regionary Catalogues, built by Constantine's sons in his honour after his death. In the Middle Ages the Frangipane used it as the base of a tower. Partly buried for centuries, it was fully uncovered in 1827, when the attic was demolished.
Visit
Via del Velabro, Roma RM
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