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Maison Carrée

The Maison carrée is an early 1st‑century Roman temple in Nîmes, France, one of the best preserved Roman temples in the former empire. It is a hexastyle Corinthian pseudo‑peripteral temple raised on a tall podium with a deep front pronaos and a single large doorway leading into a small windowless cella.

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Its prime

AD 4

Today

Still standing

As it stood in AD 4

What Maison Carrée looked like in its prime.

A rectangular Augustan temple set on a high stone podium with a single central stair of fifteen steps leading to a deep portico. Six freestanding Corinthian columns (about 9 m high) form the hexastyle façade; twenty engaged Corinthian columns line the cella walls. Above them a three‑band architrave with egg‑and‑dart moulding supports a carved frieze of rinceaux, dentils and a triangular pediment; the roof is of flat tegulae and curved imbrices.

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8 places to explore in AD 4.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Maison Carrée, including 2 interiors: within the deep front pronaos, cella interior and cult niche. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Approach across the forum to the temple and altarWithin the deep front pronaosCella interior and cult nicheCentral staircase and podium plinthSide elevation showing engaged columnsClose detail of architrave, frieze and corniceRoof tiles and pediment profileTemple within the forum context, with curia

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