Maison Carree

The Maison Carree is an ancient building in Nimes, southern France; it's miles one of the pleasant preserved Roman temple facades to be discovered within the territory of the former Roman Empire. In approximately 4-7 AD, the Maison carree turned into committed or rededicated to Gaius Caesar and Lucius Caesar, grandsons and adopted heirs of Augustus who both died young. The inscription dedicating the temple to Gaius and Lucius become eliminated in medieval instances. However, The Maison Carree is an example of Vitruvian architecture.

Raised on a 2.85 m high podium, the temple dominated the forum of the Roman town, forming a rectangle almost twice so long as it's far wide, measuring 26.42 m by using 13.54 m. The facade is dominated with the aid of a deep portico or pronaos almost a 3rd of the building's length. It is a hexastyle layout with six Corinthian columns under the pediment at both cease, A big door 6.87 m excessive by using 3.27 m wide results in the especially small and windowless indoors, in which the shrine changed into in the beginning housed. This is now used to house a visitor oriented film at the Roman records of Nimes. No historic decoration stays within the cella.