Temple of Portunus
The Temple of Portunus is an ancient Roman temple in Rome, Italy. It was built beside the Forum Boarium, the Roman cattle market associated with Hercules, which was adjacent to Rome's oldest river port and the oldest stone bridge across the Tiber River, the Pons Aemilius.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Roman temple in Rome, Italy
- Also known as: “Temple of Fortuna Virilis”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forum Boarium and Cloaca Maxima.
Forum Boarium
Park
Photo: Torquatus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Forum Boarium was the cattle market or forum venalium of ancient Rome. It was located on a level piece of land near the Tiber between the Capitoline, the Palatine and Aventine hills.
Cloaca Maxima
Photo: Lalupa, Public domain.
The Cloaca Maxima as it was originally built to drain the rain water from the city, or, less often, Maxima Cloaca, is one of the world's earliest drainage systems.
Temple of Hercules Victor
Photo: ChromosomeGun, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Temple of Hercules Victor or Hercules Olivarius is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, the former Forum Boarium, in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely surrounded by a colonnade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capitoline Hill and Palatine Hill.
Capitoline Hill
Locality
Photo: Tetraktys, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill, between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome. The hill was earlier known as Mons Saturnius, dedicated to the god Saturn.
Palatine Hill
Locality
Photo: Lil Herodotus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palatine Hill, which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been called "the first nucleus of the Roman Empire".
Colosseo
Photo: Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Colosseo district is the heart of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. It has the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Capitoline Museum.
Temple of Portunus
- Categories: archaeological site, Roman temple, temple, ancient Roman structure, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.88925° or 41° 53′ 21″ northLongitude
12.48091° or 12° 28′ 51″ eastElevation
18 metres (59 feet)Operator
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di RomaOpen location code
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tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11920020Wikidata ID
Q849241
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Temple of Portunus” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Portunusen Tenplua”
- Belarusian: “Храм Партуна”
- Bosnian: “Hram Portunusa”
- Bosnian: “Portunov hram”
- Catalan: “Temple de Portunnus”
- Catalan: “Temple de Portunus”
- Chinese: “波图努斯神庙”
- Chinese: “波圖努斯神廟”
- Croatian: “Portunov hram”
- Czech: “Portunův chrám”
- Danish: “Portunus-templet”
- Dutch: “Tempel van Portunus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد بورتنيوس”
- Esperanto: “Templo de Fortuno Vira”
- Finnish: “Portunuksen temppeli”
- French: “Temple de la Fortune virile”
- French: “temple de Portunus”
- French: “Temple de Portunus”
- Georgian: “ფორტუნას ტაძარი”
- German: “Tempel der Fortuna Virilis”
- German: “Tempel des Portunus”
- Greek: “Ναός του Πορτούνου”
- Hebrew: “מקדש פורטונוס”
- Hungarian: “Portunus temploma”
- Italian: “Tempio della Fortuna Virile”
- Italian: “Tempio di Portuno”
- Italian: “tempio di Portunus al Foro Boario”
- Japanese: “ポルトゥヌス神殿”
- Korean: “포르투누스 신전”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Templo de Portuno”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portunustempelet”
- Norwegian: “Portunustempelet”
- Polish: “Świątynia Portunusa”
- Portuguese: “Templo de Portuno”
- Russian: “Храм Портуна”
- Russian: “храм Фортуны Вирилис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Portunov hram”
- Spanish: “Templo de la Fortuna Viril”
- Spanish: “Templo de Portuno”
- Spanish: “Templo de Portunus”
- Swedish: “Portunustemplet”
- Turkish: “Fortuna Virilis Tapınağı”
- Turkish: “Portuno Tapınağı”
- Turkish: “Tempio di Portuno”
- Ukrainian: “Храм Портуна”
- Urdu: “پورتونوس کا مندر”
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