| The Pantheon was a temple dedicated to all the gods
built by Agrippa in 27BC. In AD80 it was damaged by fire and restored
by Domitian. Then Emperor Hadrian (117-38) rebuilt it. The temple
was closed in the 4C by the first Christian Emperors but in 608
it was reopened and converted into a church dedicated to S. Mary
ad Martyres. The Pantheon presents an hemispherical dome, whose
hole at the top provides the the only light. Today, one of the chapel
inside, contains the tomb of Vittorio Emanuele II (1820-78), the
first king of unified Italy and the tomb of Raphael (who died at
37 years old in 1520). |
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