Temple of Augustus and Livia

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The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripterus sine postico hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the first century, located in the city centre of the ancient city of Vienna, also corresponding to the centre of the contemporary city of Vienna, in the French department of Isère and the Rhône-Alpes region. During its construction, the temple is dedicated to imperial worship, to honour Emperor Augustus and his wife Livius. Visited by Julien in 355, he was considered a place of omens and signs of good fortune.

With the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the strong Christianization in Gaul, the temple became the parish church of Sainte-Marie-la-Veille and then Notre-Dame-de-la-Vie until the French Revolution. From 1792 the church became the temple of Reason and then the commercial court of Vienna, then the museum and the library of Vienna (until 1852), and finally, after 28 years of work, the building regained its primitive appearance as a Roman temple. Today, with the square house of Nîmes, it is the only building of this type that has been preserved on the floor of the ancient Gaul.

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