The+Pantheon

==== History the construction of the Pantheon was started by August Caesar and his supporters. The inscription across the front of the Pantheon says: M AGRIPPA.L.F.COS.TERTIUM.FECIT. meaning: Marcus Agripa son of Lucius. Archaelogical excavations have shown that the Pantheon had been completely destroyed & emperor Hadrian was responsable for rebuilding the Pantheon on the site of Agrippa´s original temple. There had been two earlier buildings on the same spot, for which the new Pantheon was a replacement. The Augustan Pntheon was destroyed in a huge fire in 80 A.D, Domitian rebuilt the Pantheon, which burned again in 110 A.D, not long after this second fire, construction started again.

== Characteristics The coffers for the concrete dome were poured in molds. Agrippa finished the construction of the building called the Pantheon. It has this name perhaps because of the images which decorated it, like the statues of many gods, inculding Mars & Venus, or becausee its vaulted roof resembles the heavens. ==

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== People and places: The Pantheon was the largest concrete construction in existance until the 20th century & the worlds largest freestanding dome until the 1960´s. The Pantheon is located in Piazza Della Rotonda which was created under Clement XI, pope form 1700 to 1721. The fountain in the Piazza was built by Giacomo Della Porta in 1578. The construction of the Pantheon was undertaken by August Caesar and his supporters. ==