Tempio di Vesta

Temple of the vestal virgins

Remains of the temple of the vestal virgins with their sacred flame. Only some of the columns remain. Part of the Roman forum.

The oldest building in Rome still standing

Wrongly called "Temple of Vesta" (after the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion, Vesta), the Temple of Hercules Victor, located in the Forum Boarium, near Piazza Bocca de...

OLD TEMPLE

This was home to the “sacred fire” and was from the 4th century BC. When completed it consisted of 20 columns of which only a few remain today after the 1930 reconstruction

Small Round Temple - Oldest Cult Site in Forum

The Temple of Vesta beginnings date to the initial settlement in this area (later 8th - 7th century B.C.). The temple was dedicated first and foremost to the cult of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth a...

Surviving the Centuries

Not much remains, but this temple weaves its way through Roman history as it was destroyed and restored on more than one occasion.