pantheon rim Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/pantheon-rim Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:06:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 PANTHEON ITALY http://toursmaps.com/pantheon-italy.html http://toursmaps.com/pantheon-italy.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:28:16 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221004 Pantheon c. 110-124 CE TEMPLE ROME, ITALY ARCHITECT UNKNOWN The best preserved of all Roman temples is the Pantheon in Rome. It is famous for its massive entrance portico and colossal circular dome, which was the biggest such structure of its time and is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. The Pantheon was built on the site of a temple that had been destroyed in a fire. Historians used to attribute the Pantheon to the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138 CE) and his architects. Recent archaeological work shows, however, that some of the bricks used in its construction

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