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Area of Torre Agentina
Named Torre Argentina after the tower which was on the site where Burckard, papal master of ceremonies, had his house built. He ordered the addition of a tower, Turris Argentina, from the Latin for Strasbourg (Argentoratum), his home town. In the middle of the square there is a group of ruins under the modern level which belonged to the sacred area of Campus Martius
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Four temples were discovered during the excavations between 1926 and 1930 which date back to Republican Rome.The ruins of the temples are known as temples A, B, C and D. The temple A has a rectangular shape, dates back to the II cent. b.C. stands on a base with a stairway. The columns are not in marble which at the time was seldom used because of the high prices, but in tufa stone. It was converted into a church dedicated to St. Nicholas in the Middle Ages; of the circular temple B only six columns are still standing, inside there was a temple with the statue of Juno; the temple C was on an even lower level, with a rectangular shape, it dates back to the IV or II cent. b.C.; the temple D is partly under the modern street level. It is not known for sure to whom the four temples were dedicated. Behind the temples some ruins of tufa and brickstone belong to another edifice annexed to Pompey's theatre where Julius Caesar was probably assassinated. To the east rises a medieval theatre called "Papitto" "of the small pope", indicating the famous anti-pope Anacleto II descendant of converted Jews. The portico was added in modern times with ruins found in the site. To the right stands the Argentina theatre dating back to the 1700's where the first performance of the Barber of Seville took place
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