SUBSTRACTION WALL (II century BC)

At the top of Piazzetta dell’Erba and above Via San Gabriele dell’Addolorata, there are some square metres of a wall at the foundation of a Palace. The wall is made of live pink stone ashlars, whose stones are assembled in a regular style. The stones represent what remains, together with other small fragments incorporated in buildings on the same street, of the terrace substructure below the ancient forum. From here and up to a surrounding wall was an area with insulae (type of apartment building). This is where the poor and working class citizens lived.