Évora II

Templo Romano de Évora
The Temple of Évora began to be built in the 1st century AD, at a time when the Iberian Peninsula was under the rule of Roman civilization. It was built as part of an urban renewal program for the city, then called Liberalitas Iulia Ebora, having been dedicated to the Emperor Augustus, whose power was at that time in a phase of affirmation. However, the works dragged on for the next two centuries, due to changes in the surrounding urban structure, since the imperial cult led to the construction of a citadel. According to tradition, the temple was founded by order of General Quinto Sertorius, when he took the city of Ebora from the people of Ebor, around 70 BC.The temple would have been one of the grandiose structures built by Sertorius as part of a city development program, which would also have included walls and towers, a palace, an aqueduct and a triumphal arch.