Nature too, played a role in the erosion of this piece of history. The Great Shore Temple that we see is believed to be actually one of an original seven pagodas (spires, temples), the rest having been eroded or submerged.
Constructing counterfactuals is always difficult, but estimates by Banca d’Italia staff (which do not consider possible non-linear effects) show that in the absence of the monetary policy measures adopted between June 2014 and December 2015, both annual inflation and GDP growth in the euro area would have been lower by about half a percentage point in 2015–17.