Byzantine Forum referred to as the Byzantine Market (in Albanian: Tregu Bizantin), was identified as a typical Roman open market complex and can be found in the centre of Durres. However, the architecture of the Forum, specifically its circular paved area (40m in diameter), revealed that this space was most probably used for more formal activities. In the market’s center, there is a podium and a well that are erected on a marble slab which covers the floor up to the colonnade. The model of the entire building and the archaeological finds date back to the period of Emperors Anastasius and Justinian at the beginning of the 4th century A.D. According to historians, their walls had such thickness that several knights could stand alongside one another on their walls. This durability explains why this forum still proudly stands in the center of the city
The rotunda inside the Forum, with a diameter of almost 6m, may have kept a monumental statue; thus, the market and commerce activities were possibly held around it.