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Mausoleum of Augustus

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The large roundel is of the Mausoleum of Augustus. The strange square shaped structure immediately next the mausoleum (in the picture above and to the right) stands adjoining the Via Flaminia and is the ustrinum on which the pyre was built which would see the emperor cremated.