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Rome. Italy. View of the seven peperino Roman columns embedded in a side wall of San Nicola in Carcere church, dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra the Greek patron saint of sailors. Two columns standing isolated are also from a Roman temple. The Originally dating from the Byzantine period, and rebuilt in 1599, the church has embedded columns in its walls and incorporates elements elsewhere from three different Republican era Roman temples which originally stood on the site.
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