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Aula Palatina

Konstantinbasilika

The Aula Palatina (Konstantinbasilika) in Trier is a monumental Roman palace audience hall of the early 4th century, later converted to church use. It is a single, rectangular brick-built hall with a large semicircular apse and the largest surviving vaulted classical-era interior hall in northern Europe.

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Its prime

AD 310

Today

Restored

As it stood in AD 310

What Aula Palatina looked like in its prime.

A massive red-brick, box-like hall 67 m long and about 27 m wide, terminating in a high semicircular apse. Exterior walls rise as a thick solid mass with a regular rhythm of tall round-arched clerestory window openings and a pronounced roof cornice/frieze. Interior is a single vast, uncolonnaded space with polished opus-sectile marble floors to the window cornices, marble wall veneers to mid-height, stucco above, and a broad, coffered wooden ceiling; deep window reveals and very thick brick walls (c. 2.7–3.4 m) frame the light.

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8 places to explore in AD 310.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Aula Palatina, including 5 interiors: central hall looking to the apse (interior), apse with raised dais/throne niche (interior), upper gallery/empora and clerestory (interior) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Konstantinplatz approach (exterior)Long side with repetitive round arches (exterior)Southern forehall and main entrance (exterior)Central hall looking to the apse (interior)Apse with raised dais/throne niche (interior)Upper gallery/empora and clerestory (interior)Transverse vestibule / narthex (interior)Service rooms and hypocaust furnaces (subterranean/interior)

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