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

PALACE OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE

PALAZZO DELLE POSTE E TELEGRAFI

Piazza S. Silvestro 96/97

In 1870 the former Monastero delle Clarisse (Convent of the Poor Clares) was transformed into the Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici (Ministry of Public Works)

Renovated in 1879 by Giovanni Malvezzi for the new function of Central Post Office

FAÇADE

Designed by Luigi Rosso in neo-Lombard Venetian style “Round reliefs with portraits of members of the Savoy family”

In the CLOISTER archaeological fragments probably coming from the TEMPLE OF THE SUN that was built in this area by Aurelian (270/275)