In the urban Roman layout of Cremona it is difficult, on the basis of the few available data, to recognize the space dedicated to the buildings for the civic, religious and leisure activities.
At the crossing point of the cardine and of the decumano, there was probably the area of the courthouse, perhaps partially in the platea parva (now Stradivari Square). In the following centuries this area lost its central role in favor of the close Municipality Square with its Cathedral.
This hypothesis could be confirmed by some bases for columns in clay made in decorated bricks which were found in the sixties and probably belonged to a temple or to a civic building of Republican Age connected to the Forum.
No archaeological datum can, at the moment, be connected to the Mefite Temple, cited by Tacito, as the unique example of building saved by the havoc of the 69 a.C. From the same source we are informed about the presence of the public Baths and of a theater in wood destined to celebrate the fleeting victory of Vitellio.
The remains of elements belonging to some refined architectonic decorations in Cesare Battisti Street can be attributed to a great building dating back to the early Augustean and Severian Age.
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