Roman Forum, Beirut

(Around the Forum) on its N side was a civic basilica 99 m. long with a Corinthian portico of polychrome materials (now in front of the "Beirut Museum"), dating from the 1st c. A.D.

A temple precinct marked the southern limit of the Forum, while a large bath complex flanked its northern side.

During the construction of parliamentary offices in 1994, archaeological excavations revealed the northern façade of a Roman public building embellished with marble arched niches.

The colonnades and decorated façades of the Forum, the central meeting place of Roman Berytus, expressed the city's power and prosperity.

A temple precinct marked the southern limit of the Forum, while a large bath complex flanked its northern side.

Roman Baths park in Downtown Beirut, in the area where there was the "Roman Forum"