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ID: I10 Title: Temple of ERCOLE, Agrigento, Italy.  
Period of construction: 510 A.C.
Structural type: Block structure
Chronology of intervention:
-1928: Reconstruction made, with the original material of nine columns, by the English captain Hardcaste.
Type of interventions:
The temple was destroyed, like many other, because of an earthquake; only 9 columns out of 38 (6 on the frontons and 15 on the long sides, corners included) stand among the ruins thanks the captain Hardcastle who raised them in the 1922.


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