Tempio di Saturno

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Eight granite columns are all that remain of the Tempio di Saturno, one of the Roman Forum's landmark sights. Inaugurated in 497 BC and subsequently rebuilt in the 1st century BC, it was an important temple that doubled as the state treasury.

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