In a small medieval courtyard on Carrer Paradis in Barcelona’s labyrinthine Gothic Quarter lies one of the city’s best-kept secrets: the more than 2,000 year-old columns from the Temple of Augustus. The four columns are all that remain of the Roman temple that was used as a place of worship by Emperor Augustus, adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar. The columns of the temple are amazingly incorporated into the medieval buildings that were built around them.
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