I know this area from when it was still (early 2010’s) largely covered by earth. During a number of visits I saw it first appear, than be restored at an amazing speed. It is a typical colonnaded street (I have since found this is called the Western Columned Street) with shops along its side. When you come to some sort of half-way gate (I think you pass under a aqueduct that runs there), you pass a sports space (Palaestra and Gymnasium) to the right and a bit later baths (Northern Bath) on the left. At the end of the street to its left there is a Fountain (of Caracalla), then leave town through the Western Gate. A notice in 2018 stopped me, one was forbidden to move further. On earlier visits there was no such notice, and I wandered in an area that is called the Western Necropolis.

I am writing some captions and rearranging pictures after a 2018 visit.