Monument to Julius Caesar

The monument to Julius Caesar is a bronze copy of the statue in the Capitol, erected at the Forum of Julius Caesar recently.

The Forum of Julius Caesar itself was the first of the imperial forums built with funds from military booty in the war with the Gauls. On the morning before the decisive battle with Pompey at Pharsala, Caesar vowed to dedicate a new temple to his Divine Ancestor. Pompey was finally defeated, and Caesar, on the site between the old Forum and the Quirinal, built a new forum, in the center of which stood the temple of Venus - the ancestor.

Excavations of recent years have brought many surprises, revealing the magnificent remains of the Forum and the temple of Venus the ancestor. On this occasion, a monument was erected.