What is the history behind the Piazza del Pantheon in Italy?

Question

What is the history behind the Piazza del Pantheon in Italy?

Answer 1

It was built as a temple dedicade to the 7 deities (Sun, Moon, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Mars) in 25 bc by Marco Vipsanio Agrippa. But the name Pantheon derives froom Greek even if identify this structure actually familiarly called "La Rotonda" (rotund/round).

Answer 2

It was built for the gods. There used to be statues for all of the gods inside. I forget which was but barbarians who attacked italy recognized the greatness of it and left it alone while destroying many other buildings.

Answer 3

The name Pantheon derives from ancient Greek:

pan = all

thèon = Gods

it was a pagan temple built by ancient romans to celebrate their Gods. It has a perfectly circular enormous hole in its middle, thru which the rain-water was colected and used by the citizens.

Throughout the centuries this building has been used as a tomb for famous people: kings and artist are buried there, as the famous painter Raffaello.

Later on it has been consacrated and used as a church for catholic cerimonies.

Answer 4

this is to add onto Mario's a little.... toturn it "Catholic" they brough in dray lads of the bones of maryters and buried them there. during mass and the Gloria/Allulujia they would sing more loudly and fully to expell the ghsts of the past through the hole in the ceiling.  also if you're there walk around it fully.  you'll see what llooks like a moat arounf the back -it's not -it's the street it was originally built upon - over the years the trash and dirt of the centuries has built up around it causing the road to rise to the level it is today!

Answer 5

The original Pantheon was built in 27 BC-25 BC under the Roman Empire, during the third consulship of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and his name is inscribed on the portico of the building. The inscription reads M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIUM·FECIT, "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, during his third consulate, built this". It was originally built with adjoining baths and water gardens.

Agrippa's Pantheon was destroyed along with other buildings in a fire in 80, and the current building dates from about 125, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian[2], as date-stamps on the bricks reveal. It was totally reconstructed, with the text of the original inscription added to the new facade, a common practice in Hadrian's rebuilding projects all over Rome. Hadrian was a cosmopolitan emperor who travelled widely in the east and was a great admirer of Greek culture. He seems to have intended the Pantheon, a temple to all the gods, to be a kind of ecumenical or syncretist gesture to the subjects of the Roman Empire who did not worship the old gods of Rome, or who (as was increasingly the case) worshipped them under other names.

The building was later repaired by Septimius Severus and Caracalla in 202, for which there is another, smaller inscription.

In 609 the Byzantine emperor Phocas gave the building to Pope Boniface IV, who reconsecrated it as a Christian church, the Church of Mary and all the Martyr Saints (Santa Maria ad Martyres), which title it retains