Its history began in the year 27 BC, when Marco Vipsanio Agrippa, son-in-law, friend and collaborator of Augustus, had the first temple dedicated to "all the gods" built in this area. Its current form, however, is due to Hadrian, who had it rebuilt between 118 and 125 AD, enlarging it, reversing its orientation and opening a large porticoed square in front of the new temple.

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"The most beautiful vestige of Roman antiquity. A temple that has suffered so little that it seems to us just as the Romans must have seen it in their time," was how the French writer Stendhal described it in the 19th century. A source of inspiration for the greatest architects of all times and always admired for its beauty, the harmony of its lines and the perfect calculation of the geometry of its masses, the Pantheon is in fact one of the best preserved examples of Roman monumental architecture.

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