Author name: Elizabeth Jackson

Elizabeth has been crafting engaging travel narratives for over 15 years, exploring over 30 countries across every continent except Antarctica. She has a passion for solo and cultural travel, delving deep into the heart of local lifestyles and traditions.

Wide-angle interior view of the Pantheon in Rome showing the coffered concrete dome and the circular oculus open to the sky at its apex, with a beam of natural light descending into the crowded rotunda and the ornate marble walls, columns and altar visible below

Hadrian’s 2,000-Year-Old Solar Trick: The Pantheon Oculus Lights Up Rome’s Birthday at Noon Every April 21

Every April 21 at noon, a beam of sunlight descends through the oculus of the Pantheon and strikes the monument’s bronze entrance doors — a phenomenon that has occurred without interruption for nearly 2,000 years

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