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Maison Carrée
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How it came to be
The Maison Carrée is a temple built early in the 1st century AD on the forum of the Roman colony of Nemausus, today's Nîmes in southern France. It has six Corinthian columns across the front and twenty engaged columns along the cella walls, and measures 26.42 by 13.54 metres. It was dedicated to Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Augustus's grandsons and adopted heirs, who both died young.
The temple served the imperial cult and showed the town's loyalty to Augustus's family. Its original inscription was removed in the Middle Ages, but in 1758 the local scholar Jean-François Séguier worked out the text from the fixing holes left in the frieze and architrave.
Restorations since the 17th century have brought the building back to its original form with few major changes. It housed what is now the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes from 1821 to 1907, and a restoration in 1988-1992 renewed the roof. It was inscribed in 2023.
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