Near the famed Frasassi Caves of Italy’s Marche region is a lesser known mountain cave which guards a neoclassical temple inside. The octagonal-shaped the Temple of Valadier takes its name from the architect who designed it in the 19th century - Giuseppe Valadier, one of the most important Neoclassical architects in Italy.

The small temple, which stands by the entrance to the cave, contains the copy of a statue of the Madonna and Child, which replaced the original, sculpted by Antonio Canova’s workshop, and now kept in the Genga Museum in the nearby town of Genga.