Porta Maggiore

This monumental double archway began as a support carrying two aqueducts over important roads in the first century AD, and was later absorbed into the Aurelian Walls as a city gate. Its rusticated travertine, left deliberately rough, gives it a powerful, unfinished appearance. Beside it stands the unusual tomb of a baker named Eurysaces, decorated with reliefs of bread-making and a frieze shaped like the mouths of ovens. Nearby lies an underground basilica of the first century, richly decorated in stucco.