Temple of Debod

This guide to the Temple of Debod in Madrid stands on ground with two very different pasts: a Civil War barracks stormed by an angry crowd in July 1936, and, decades later, a two-thousand-year-old Egyptian temple given to Spain in 1968 as thanks for its help saving Abu Simbel from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. You'll hear how workers dismantled the temple block by block on the banks of the Nile and rebuilt it here. Watch for how its gateways still face east to west, just as they once did on the Nile.