Tempio di Asclepios (Esculapium)

It was this building that all the sick would attend to receive treatments and advice. It dates from 400- 390 B.C. It consisted of a cella in antis and of a pronaos with two columns.
The building, says Polybius, was eight and a half stadiums away from the city, that is 1480 meters. Cicero asserts that in the temple there was a statue of Apollo, made by Miron, whose name was written with silver letters on one thigh of the masterpiece.
The Temple of Asclepios was a small building: 22,144 meters long and 11,118 wide, it occupied a surface of 246,196 square meters, and its decoration was by far inferior to that of classical Greek temples. The walls are m.0,55; the diameter of the columns is m.1,10.