GIUNONE TEMPIO
The temple of Junon is situated in a dominant position, isolated on a hillside, at the eastern end of the Valley of Temples. It was built around 460-450 BC in Doric style, its classical architecture now retains 25 intact columns for the pleasure of the curious, amateurs and historians. Comparable to the temple of the Concorde, it originally consisted of 34 columns, 13 on the longest sides and 6 on the shortest sides. Sixteen of its columns have also preserved their capitals. Imagine that its roof was once covered with marble tiles.
Its classical plan consists of an entrance vestibule called pronaos, a central piece, cella, and a posterior vestibule, opisthodome, as tradition desires. Its distinctive feature is the later construction of a gradins in the cella, where red traces witness a fire that historians have associated with the carthaginoises invasions of 406 B.C. and its attribution is uncertain, although it is widely named Junon temple by confusion. In the east you see a great altar once dedicated to sacrifice, as well as a piece of road dug by the wheels of the tanks of the time. Behind the temple, archaeologists also discovered a tank.
After its twin, the temple of La Concorde, it is certainly the best preserved temple of the valley, and its dominant position, 120 meters above the sea on the highest point of the Valley of Temples, makes it all the more impressive!
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