Pompeii
The Forum of Pompeii with Mount Vesuvius, that destroyed it in 79 CE, still looming in the background. A Roman Forum is an open public space in the middle of a Roman city. When Pompeii was first founded, the Forum was a small market in the centre of the town, at the juncture of two important routes that linked it to Naples, Nola, and Stabiae.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Sun Oct 23, 1994