If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of the town.


Chapter VII "The Sites for Public Buildings" Sec. 1 - De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC) - Book I

Vitruvius Quotes

If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of...

If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of...

If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of...

If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of...