Temple d'August
Four Corinthian columns from Rome's colonial era, preserved intact in a medieval courtyard.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Temple d'August in Barcelona begins with workers breaking through a medieval wall on Carrer del Paradís in the late 1800s and finding four Corinthian columns, nearly nine meters tall, sealed inside and untouched for centuries. It traces the columns back to the Temple of Augustus, the most sacred building of Roman Barcino, raised on the city's highest point when the first emperor was worshipped as a god. The building under construction when the columns were found belonged to a mountaineering club, the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya.
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