Piazza Tre Martiri, in reality a plaza from Roman times, but the name today is in honour of three partisans who died in 1944 – hanged by the retreating Nazis at the end of World War II. But, before the horrors of WWII, this plaza marked the meeting point of the Cardo and Decumanus and it is where the roman forum was located. Ariminum followed classic roman town planning concepts, having two main streets – the cardo(running on a north south axis, and corresponding to modern day Via Garibaldi and Via IV Novembre) and the decumanus (running on the east west axis, and corresponding to the modern day Corso d’Augusto), with a forum at the point where the two intersect. The forum’s role was similar to that of the Piazza in modern Italy.
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