Temple · Alcántara
Templo romano de Alcántara
Today: Templo romano de Alcántara, Alcántara
- Place
- Alcántara
- Kind
- Temple
- Built
- c. 103
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
A small votive temple in antis, of granite and a single cella, facing the southern end of the bridge. Tradition gives it to Gaius Julius Lacer, the bridge's engineer, who is said to have dedicated it to the divinised emperors and finished it in the year 103; it survives almost complete because in 1169 it became the chapel of San Julián. The date is disputed: some hold that its inscription departs from the usage of its kind and that the temple was raised much later, in the 15th-century refashioning.