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Temple of Portunus

The small Temple of Portunus, named after the tutelary deity of the port and commonly, but mistakenly, called the Temple of Fortuna Virilis, is located in the Forum Boarium, where the first bridges were built. It was restored in the first century BC and is so well preserved because the temple was converted to use as a church late in the ninth century.

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