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"On the side that flanks the river Tiber sits the Museum of the Ara Pacis, an impossibly elegant travertine and glass structure designed by the architectural titan Richard Meier and opened in 2006; within it sits the grand triumphal monument commissioned in 13 BC to mark the beginning of Augustus’s Pax Romana, the two decades of peace that saw the Roman empire reach the heights of its glories." - Liam Hess