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Temple of Hercules

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Roman temple from the 2nd century CE with two surviving columns.

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Originally larger than its Roman counterpart in Italy, the temple was never finished. A massive marble hand — fragments of what may have been a 13 m statue of Hercules — sits nearby on a stone platform.