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Tempietto di San Marco

The small church of San Marco is almost hidden by the toller houses in its surroundings and not easy to find. It is situated in the immediate vicinity of the Torre d'Ercole, just a few meters in direction of south.
The thirtheen century San Marco is an interesting example of late Romanesque architecture. It has simple plan in its interiors, which preserves valuable 14th century frescoes.

Torre d'Ercole

The twelve century Torre d'Ercole is the best preserved example of tower-house, a medieval form of private dwelling of the Palazzi family. The tower takes its name from the ancient place "Vicus Herculis".
Ezzelino da Romano had its top chopped of in 1258, as a tengible sign of the Ghibelline conquest.

Roman Theatre

The ruins of the Roman Theatre, still under the excavation works, stands next to the Capitolium. According to its proportions, the town of Brescia was important settlement in the Roman times.
Unfortunately, I couldn't seen any progress in the reconstruction works since my last visit of the site which was more then a year ago.

Roman Forum

The temple of Capitolium stands at the north end of the Roman Forum, of which remains of porticoes can be seen in the square, beside a stretch of the paved "decumanus maximus".
On the right of the temple are the neglected remains of a Roman amphitheatre. By the time of my visit to Brescia, it was closed and under major reconstruction works.

Capitolium

Capitolium is a Roman temple erected by the emperor Vespasian A.D. 73, which stands on a high stylobate approached by the steps, 15 of which are original. The temple has a hexastyle pronaos of Corinthian columns with a colonnade of three columns on each side. The three cellae were probably dedicated to the Capitoline Trinity, Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.
The temple was excavated in 1823 and reconstructed in brick in 1939-1950. Beneath it is a republican sanctuary, dating from 89 BC, with mosaics of small uncoloured tesserae.

Capitolium

By the 3C B.C. the city of Brescia had come under Roman rule. Most of the old city centre still have traces of the crisscros Roman street plan. However, not much of the Roman building have left in the town.
Via dei Musei leads you to the imposing Capitolium, remnants of the large temple from the Roman times.