Hi everyone,
we leave Piazza Navona behind us and target one of the most important buildings of human history: the Pantheon.
Still today, the Pantheon is the building with the biggest columns made of a single piece of stone on earth ever used by humans!
Ans still today it is the biggest building made without steel having the biggest couple with hole as roof - there is no other building on earth that has a roof like that.
And it is probably one of the oldest buildings still existing and in use today (today the Pantheon is used as a church, but in ancient Rome it was the temple for all gods and has been build 27 bc!!! That makes it 2044 years old!!!
I will not write about the history, the building or anything you might read in your tour guide book or on wikipedia.
I just want to tell you, that this is a must see when you will be in Rome the next time.
Foto: Romacittaeterna . it
In the above picture you can see the open cut of the Pantheon - interesting are following facts in my opinion:
- the inside of the building is round and there might fit in perfectly a ball with a diameter of 40+ meters
- the walls at the floor level are 6 meters this but the very top of the building is only approximately 40 cm strong
- the columns at the entrance are the biggest in the world (made of one piece of stone
- when it rains, the water enters the building through the hole at the top of it
- when the building is full of people the body heat will exit through the hole at the top of the building - this might in some case keep the rainwater outside (like an invisible shield :) )
- the letters above the columns are extremely bis, although you would not think so they are something about 1,5 meters high!
- behind the Pantheon there is a small bar where they officially make the best coffee in the world (no kidding - they won prices for the last 30 years!) Ask for Caffé St. Eustacchio on St. Eustaccio place (150 meters away from the pantheon (behind it, right street).
Here is a website with a great reconstruction of the ancient Rome version of the pantheon: http://www.romanoimpero.com/2009/09/il-pantheon.html
And now, here are some pictures I took from the Pantheon:
And here I am :)
And here is one shot close before a desert-storm-like-rain :)
Next step:
We will now go to the Trevi Fountain, which will be part nr 7 of our tour through Rome!
Make sure you do not miss it! Great pics are waiting for you! :)
And as always, feel free to write a feedback under this post!
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