00SIR_2433 -1 SIRIA PALMIRA TEMPLO DE BEL by druidabruxux
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Bel Temple built by Tiberius in 19 CE to commemorate and strengthen while the annexation of Palmyra to the Roman Empire. The architects who clinched it probably came from the great city of Antioch.
Its architecture is great and the refinement of its sculpture and decoration. It is a holy place.
The Temple of Bel is a milestone founding artistic summit emerged a vacuum and unprecedented in this area of the East. And he went down all Palmira, he learned the canon all its architects, its large derived a sense of magnificence palmirenses applied to successive traces of the city, the lush foliage abarrocada of pilasters, vineyards and pine cones of the friezes, acanthus leaf capitals, climbed the walls and overflowed, spreading the taste for decorative plants (which honors the name of Palmyra), filigree and always imaginative, which permeates every corner of the city .
Out of nowhere it jumped to the top, for no monument of Palmyra tied to this primeval giant from the first century, which began in 19 CE and consecrated in 32 CE
This large square enclosure sacred to the beginning of the century housed almost the entire village of Tadmor, when, forgotten with the passing of the centuries of the rich splendor of classical Palmira, the population and only consisted of Bedouin tribes staying in houses weaving an intricate adobe Arab medina, underpinned by strong walls and shafts of the pagan temple, was an oasis of Corinthian columns rising over a maze of mud, but could never reach the heights of the original building, leaned on his strength, adjusted to their holes and their recesses branched.