The Temple of Hercules was built during the Silla dictatorship, between 89 BC. and 80 BC on the top of the hill on which the city of Cora had risen, at 398 meters above sea level, at the behest of two local magistrates, whose name is engraved on the lintel of the door.
The temple owes its state of conservation to the transformation into a church: in fact, the church of San Pietro was installed inside the cell, destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944.
The building is tetrastyle, that is, with four columns on the main front.
Four other columns on each side delimited the pronaos, beyond which the cell opened. The eight columns of the temple, of Doric order, have been preserved, as well as the entablature and the pediment. The temple strongly recalls the Italic Templar tradition, deriving from the Etruscan and Republican examples.
The temple dominates the city from above, so much so that it is visible even from afar.
Temple of Hercules in Cori a Monte
Address: Piazza, Via Tempio D'Ercole, 8, 04010
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