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The temple took 700 years to complete and it was Hadrian who finished the task in the second century a.d.
For 60 years Jerusalem lay in ruins, until the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the city rebuilt as a Roman town dedicated to Jupiter.
In fact, two Roman emperors, Hadrian and Trajan, were born in nearby Itálica.
Built by Emperor Hadrian around a.d. 125 on an earlier site destroyed by fire, it achieved a marvel of engineering with its magnificent coffered dome: over 43 m (141 ft) in interior diameter (larger than St. Peter’s), exactly equal to its height.
Adorned by ten angel sculptures by Bernini and his studio, it arrives at the Castel Sant’Angelo, originally built as Hadrian’s mausoleum in a.d. 139.