The temple of Hercules dominates the city of Cori from above and was erected around 80 BC by order of two local magistrates, whose name is engraved on the door lintel.
The temple owes its state of conservation to the transformation into the church of San Pietro, destroyed by allied bombing in 1944, and the bell tower of which is still visible.
The building has four columns on the main front and strongly recalls the Italic tradition, deriving from the Etruscans.
Over the centuries it has attracted a large number of scholars such as Gian Battista Piranesi who dedicated a series of engravings to him from which the ancient shape was reconstructed.
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