Who are the bodies in the Pantheon?

The Pantheon is the burial site of two Italian kings and a queen: Vittorio Emanuele II, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, his wife and queen. Vittorio Emanuele belonged to the House of Savoy, a powerful family that reigned over the Kingdom of Piedmont, in north-west Italy.



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In 1851, Léon Foucault conducted a demonstration of diurnal motion at the Panthéon by suspending a pendulum from the ceiling, a copy of which is still visible today. As of December 2021 the remains of 81 people (75 men and six women) had been transferred to the Panthéon.

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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.

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