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Cardo Maximus (by Julian Kaesler via theworldwelivein)

The "cardo maxima", or main North-South street, of the ruined Roman city of Apamea in Syria. The street and its remaining columns stretch for some 1.5 kilometres, a reminder of this city's past splendour and wealth which was once home to 500,000 people. The cardo ran perpendicular to the "Decumanus Maximus," a Roman city's primary East-West axis that usually connected the Porta Praetoria (in a military camp, closest to the enemy) to the Porta Decumana (away from the enemy). The meeting of the Cardo Maxima and Decumanus Maximus was termed the groma, which usually provided the site for the Forum.