One of the best things about visiting ancient ruins is that you can so often get up close with them; at the Roman sites in this list you can walk Roman streets, visit Roman amphitheatres and even bathe as the Romans did. Just across the road from the Colosseum, the Roman Forum was once the hub of Roman public life and is another of the most important Roman sites in Rome. The Roman presence in Greece can be traced back to the 2nd century BC, starting with the Roman victory over the Kingdom of Macedonia in the Macedonian Wars and ending with Greece becoming a province of the Roman Empire by 27BC.