Marcus Agrippa's Pantheon is
one of the world's most sublime architectural creations: a perfectly proportioned floating
dome resting on an elegant drum of columns and pediments. It was built in 27 BC, and
rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in 120 AD. The temple has been consistently plundered and
damaged over the years; it lost its beautiful gilded bronze roof tiles in Pope Gregory
III's time. Look for the tombs of Raphael and Victor Emmanuel I.