TEMPLE OF APOLLO SOSIANO

TEMPIO DI APOLLO SOSIANO
Via del Teatro Marcello

Since the year 449 BC there was an altar dedicated to Apollinar
After a plague the temple was built in 431 BC for Apollo Medicus

Restorations in the years 353 and 179 BC
It was rebuilt in full on the year 34 BC by Gaius Sosio after whom the temple was named

Current podium 21.32 x 40 m (67 x 131 feet)

Three columns remain, 14 m (46 feet) high. Originally there were six on the front and three on the sides

Here took place often meetings of the Senate as in the nearby Temple of Bellona
The cella was a museum with paintings and statues
Parts of the original Greek statues of the pediment and other interior elements are now in the museum of the Centrale Montemartini

TEMPLE OF HEALTH

TEMPIO DELLA SALUS
Via del Quirinale

306/303 BC, built by Caio Iunius Bubulcus, consul on the year 311 BC, on the area of the current Quirinal Palace, after his victories in the II Samnite War (326/304 BC)

Nothing is left to be seen

There were paintings by Fabio Pittore maybe with scenes of war
The temple gave its name to the nearby PORTA SALUTARIS of the Servian Walls

TEMPLE OF THE SUN

TEMPIO DEL SOLE
Piazza S. Silvestro/Via del Corso

Built for Aurelian (270/275) between the current Piazza S. Silvestro and Via del Corso
Nothing is left to be seen

Nearby there were:
CASTRA URBANA
Barracks for about 1,500 soldiers with the job of keeping public order under the command of the Praefectus Urbi. Their number was increased to about 2,000 at the end of the first century AD

FORUM SUARIUM
Market of pork meat