Complesso Monumentale San Lorenzo Maggiore
Layered site of a Greek agora, Roman covered market and French Gothic basilica stacked over two thousand years.
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This guide to the Complesso Monumentale San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples layers a French Gothic basilica raised around 1270 over a Roman street, and beneath that a Greek open-air market that had already been trading for centuries. It traces how the Romans rebuilt the site into a domed macellum with workshops and a public treasury, and how a fifth-century flood buried the whole complex in mud. That burial, oddly enough, is the reason any of it survived at all.
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