So, fight your way from the Spanish Steps down Via Condotti, Via Borghese and Via Marzo to the Pantheon, that remarkable circular temple built by Hadrian in AD 119-128.
But I had been training for this: the week earlier I was at another film festival - the Efebo d'Oro for films drawn from literary sources - in Agrigento, Sicily, the birthplace of Luigi Pirandello and home of several remarkable Greek temples.
The legacy of Silla Buddhism can be seen in many beautiful temples and great works of art, the most remarkable of which Pulguk Temple, Sŏkkuram (a grotto shrine), and the bell at Pongdŏk Temple are in the Kyŏngju area and have been designated UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Given the rich history of Catalan anti-clericalism long predating the Spanish civil war, it is remarkable that the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Família (to give it its full name) has now become the number-one tourist attraction in Barcelona, with some 3 million visitors annually.
The result is a series of remarkable and wholly original temples.
Since then, popular conceptions have been refined further — by the late Oliver Sacks, in his book "An Anthropologist on Mars" (1995); by Temple Grandin, the remarkable autistic animal-science professor, in "Thinking in Pictures" (1995); and by Mark Haddon, whose novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (2003) vividly evoked how an autistic child might experience the world.
The ancient Greek part of Paestum consists of two sacred areas containing three Doric temples in a remarkable state of preservation.
For Kōfuku Temple, Unkei sustained the remarkable standards of the temple's renowned Nara period hollow-lacquer sculpture with his production of figures such as the famous disciples of the Buddha, Muchaku (Asanga) and Seshin (Vasubandhu).
The more intimate shots, whether of samurai or buddhist temple decorations, show a remarkable maturity of perspective, and remain vibrant a century and a half after their creation.
As Charles Gates notes in Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome, the Temple of Bel showed a remarkable synthesis of ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman architecture.
