Via dei Fori Imperiali

The Via dei Fori Imperiali is a road in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, that runs in a straight line from the Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum. Its course takes it over parts of the Forum of Trajan, Forum of Augustus and Forum of Nerva, parts of which can be seen on both sides of the road. Since the 1990s, there has been a great deal of archeological excavation on both sides of the road, as significant Imperial Roman relics remain to be found underneath it.

The Via dei Fori Imperiali was built by order of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, in the period between 1924 and 1932.
The tentative name of the road during its construction was Via dei Monti, but was named Via dell'Impero when it was inaugurated.
Mussolini, on horseback, cut the ribbon opening the road on 9 April 1932 and led a military parade with veterans of World War I.
After the end of World War II, the road was renamed to its present name.
Each year on 2 June it hosts a parade in celebration of the founding of the modern Italian Republic.

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