Pantheon. - This word, in ancient Rome, a building dedicated to all gods. The first building was probably a so called big round room, a portico, and MV Agrippa, friend and son of the Emperor Augustus, erected in his third consulate, in the year 27 BC by the architect Valerius Ostiensis the center of the Champ de Mars, near the Baths that Agrippa had built in 33 AD, during his municipal administration. The vicissitudes What would undergo this Pantheon of Agrippa will be recorded in the page on the Pantheon in Rome, it is necessary only to recall that in the sequel, we gave the same name Pantheon building in which were kept the remains of great men or in which their memory was honored, and that the circular was not a mandatory requirement for this destination. The emperor Hadrian, who was probably restore, rebuild or improve the Pantheon of Agrippa in Rome, had erected in Athens, during one of his travels in this city, the Pantheon, whose ruins, rectangular, were often confused with the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, while Agrippa had built in Antequera (Spain) a temple on the model of Rome's Pantheon, the temple that was restored two centuries later, but we no longer find traces today.
One can cite a number of buildings that enshrined in various countries in the tomb of famous people, received the name of Pantheon. The principal of these buildings are: the Church of St. Dominic, in Palermo, large sanctuary, high in the thirteenth century by the Dominicans, contains the tombs of many Sicilians who have distinguished themselves as artists, scholars, lawyers, writers, men political or warriors, the church of Westminster Abbey, London, completed in its current state in the thirteenth century and which contains numerous tombs of royals and long rows of monuments of famous men, is regarded correctly by the English as a national shrine and the true Pantheon of England or the Phanteon of the king tomb at Escorial, near Madrid, crypt octagonal 10 m in diameter and a little more hight located below the capilla mayor, decorated with precious marbles and gilded bronze ornaments and containing, in four rows of superimposed niches, many graves Spanish monarchs from Charles-Quint.
One can cite a number of buildings that enshrined in various countries in the tomb of famous people, received the name of Pantheon. The principal of these buildings are: the Church of St. Dominic, in Palermo, large sanctuary, high in the thirteenth century by the Dominicans, contains the tombs of many Sicilians who have distinguished themselves as artists, scholars, lawyers, writers, men political or warriors, the church of Westminster Abbey, London, completed in its current state in the thirteenth century and which contains numerous tombs of royals and long rows of monuments of famous men, is regarded correctly by the English as a national shrine and the true Pantheon of England or the Phanteon of the king tomb at Escorial, near Madrid, crypt octagonal 10 m in diameter and a little more hight located below the capilla mayor, decorated with precious marbles and gilded bronze ornaments and containing, in four rows of superimposed niches, many graves Spanish monarchs from Charles-Quint.
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