Largo di Torre Argentina - site of four ancient temples (4th to 1st century BC) and part of Pompey's Theatre where Julius Caesar was killed (they were temproarily using that space for Senate meetings while his Curia was being constructed). Currently, it is the site for a no-kill cat shelter (see immediate foreground).
Trajan's Column (c. 113 AD) in the foreground, and the Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland or Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in the background.
A first century AD Roman copy of Myron's Discus Thrower statue, or Discobolus, found on the Esquiline Hill in 1781. The original Greek bronze by Myron (c. 465 BC) is lost. In 1938 Adolf Hitler bought it, shipped it by rail to Munich and displayed it in the Glyptothek. It was returned in 1948 and now sits in National Roman Museum.
