Lanuvio, Italy【Walking Tour】With Captions - 4K
[Drone intro] 1/3 Temple of Juno Sospita☀️ At the end of the 6th century BC a large west-oriented Tuscan-type temple was created to which some structures in peperino stone still visible and a series of architectural terracotta 2/3 After the Roman conquest of Lanuvius in 338 BC, the Temple of Juno Sospita entered the orbit of Rome. The reconstruction works of the entire religious structure must certainly be attributed to this period. Only 2/3 of the foundations of the middle republican temple remain as the right part collapsed following the collapse of the terrace of the Sanctuary. 3/3 As evidence of the prestige that the temple enjoyed at this time, we have news from Appiano according to which, in the war against Sextus Pompey, Octavian used the treasures accumulated in the religious structure. We also know from epigraphic testimonies of a restoration intervention by Hadrian, due to the disastrous state of ruin in which the structure was in the 1st century. A.D. 1/12 ***
2021-05-10 21:20
