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Designed as a belvedere for Cardinal Capra in 1567, it’s an exquisite piece of applied geometry, a domed rotunda set in a square surrounded on all four sides by simple Ionic-columned porticoes.
With an exhilarating leap of the imagination, you can stand among the columns, arches, and porticoes of the Roman Forum and picture the civic, commercial, and religious hub of the great city, the first in Europe to house a million inhabitants.
Imagine a vast square looking originally something like Venice’s Piazza San Marco, with two-story porticoes running along three sides and the six-columned Temple to Jupiter flanked by ceremonial arches at the north end.