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Tempio di Serapide

TIME : 2016/2/18 21:22:13

Just east of the port, sunken in a leafy piazza, sits the Tempio di Serapide. Despite its name, it wasn't a temple at all but an ancient macellum (town market) – the site is named after a statue of the Egyptian god Serapis found here in 1750. Its toilets (at either side of the eastern apse) are considered works of ancient ingenuity.