After the Allied bombing in 1943, the building stock of the historic core of the city was almost completely destroyed. Just after the war, the first attempts to systematize and direct the reconstruction were made, without previous templates that would make the work of many experts involved in the project easier. The area around the ancient forum with preserved historical monuments that had to be carefully integrated into the image of the modern city turned out to be the most challenging for the renovation. Since ancient times, the area of the forum has been the heart of the city, the meeting point of social, political and religious life, so it had to be equipped with the right contents in order to preserve its centuries-old character. Even though the city was built and renovated, the area around the ancient forum remains undefined to this day, because with every new competition and idea for regulating the forum, the need for an even more detailed and precise definition of this important area of the historical core of Zadar would arise.