Roman Temple of Évora

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The Roman Temple of Évora stands at Largo do Conde de Vila Flor on the hilltop of the historic centre, which the Municipality of Évora calls the Acropolis. The municipality describes it as 1st-century Roman religious architecture that formed part of the forum: Corinthian, hexastyle and peripteral, on a rectangular plan of about 25 by 15 metres, once framed by water tanks. It has long been called the Temple of Diana, but the municipality says it was probably dedicated to the imperial cult rather than to Diana. The same page says the building was reused over the centuries, above all as the municipal butcher's, and owes its present appearance to the clearing of its walls in 1870 under Cinatti. The cathedral chapter notes that the cathedral stands on the same hilltop.