The granite columns of the Roman temple in Riez

The columns of Riez are the remains of a Roman temple from the 1st century AD, located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in France. The structure was classified as a historic monument in 1840.

Located near the Colostre, the colonnade consists of four monolithic grey granite columns topped with white marble Corinthian capitals. They support a richly sculpted limestone architrave. This specific choice of materials was intended to highlight the polychrome marble decorations found broken during excavations in 1963, which revealed the temple's foundations.

These columns are the last remains of a portico of a temple, possibly dedicated to Apollo, built toward the end of the 1st century AD. Their unique characteristic is that they have been preserved in their original location since antiquity at the entrance of the town.

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