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The building known as a pantheon is one that has been built to honor one or more gods and where the assistants are supposed to pray on behalf of that god. In the western world, the Pantheon of Agrippa is undoubtedly the most famous and recognized at the level global due to its beauty, its splendor and its important size. This Pantheon was commissioned by the individual who gave it its name, Marco Agrippa (an important general and companion of the first Roman emperor, Augustus) in the 1st century BC.

The Pantheon of Agrippa is located in the town of Rome and is one of the most visited spaces by tourists in the present. Its structure could be described basically as the union of two sections: the entrance, which has a building similar to that of the Greek Parthenon (and known as Pronaos), and the Pantheon itself, which is circular and whose roof rises above the entrance. One of the features Most outstanding of the Roman Pantheon is that its roof is permanently open by the presence of a hole through which light passes to keep in

Contact to the gods with the celestial world.

The building that we can visit today is not, however, the original building that was built by Agrippa. This is so since during his reign in the second century, Emperor Hadrian ordered to rebuild it to improve his orientation, his design and rebuilding some sections of the building that needed repair.

There is no doubt that the interior of the Roman Pantheon is one of the most wonderful places in all of Rome. This place has the presence of numerous columns and gates, as well as beautiful sculptures and decorations on the walls that give it greater luxury and beauty. In addition, the cupola section is covered inside with large caissons that get smaller and smaller as you climb in height. Is beautifull The dome is almost eight and a half meters high on the outside. The exedras (open spaces within the wall) built inside the Pantéon serve as spaces to dedicate prayers to the gods.

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