Rome: Pantheon

As a young kid my family never traveled very far outside of our home town. So, traveling to another country was something that I never got to experience. For my first out of the country trip, I am delighted to say that I am glad we get to travel to different cities and learn about topics in each one. Today we traveled to the pantheon, it was built in 118 A.D., so it is almost two-thousand years old. It was built and dedicated for the god of pagan Rome. The inside has a rounded bottom and a top with a dome. On the dome it has squares along the bottom edge until it reaches the top. The mixture of squares with the circles represents renaissance. Or the order within the Roman Empire. At the very top of the dome is a open circle, which isn’t covered by glass. In the middle of the floor is a drain for the rain water to go down, so it doesn’t flood the inside of the Pantheon. There are one in the middle with four other drains accompanying it so it isn’t too much.

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