The Temple de la Sibylle is a small, circular rotunda of eight columns topped by a stone cupola, perched atop a steep, jagged cliff on an island in the middle of a lake. Designed by city architect Gabriel Davioud and opened in eighteen sixty-seven, it was modeled after the ancient Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy. The structure sits at the highest point of the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, a landscape engineered under the direction of Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand to transform a former gypsum quarry and toxic waste site into a public park for the Exposition Universelle.
Temple de la Sybille
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