Ancient site · Italy · Partial ruin
Temple of Venus and Roma
Tempio di Venere e Roma
The Temple of Venus and Roma was a monumental double-cella temple on the Velian Hill, built under Hadrian and dedicated to Venus Felix and Roma Aeterna. It occupied a very large raised podium between the Forum Romanum and the Colosseum and contained two enormous back-to-back cult chambers, each with a tetrastyle entrance and a monumental seated cult statue.
First raised
AD 135
Its prime
AD 141
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 141
What Temple of Venus and Roma looked like in its prime.
A vast rectangular raised podium (about 145 × 100 m) topped by a long, flat paved terrace and broad central stair; the temple core is formed by two large, back-to-back cellae set on the plateau and fronted by decastyle (ten-column) short façades and double colonnades along the long sides. Exterior walls show massive brick-faced masonry beneath marble cladding; rows of white marble or granite columns ring the platform, and the plateau is punctuated by broad stone steps and paved approaches.
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