Domus Aurea outside

“Just here, where the Amphitheatre’s honoured pile rises, was Nero’s lake” (Martial). From the Domus Aurea
(Golden House) to the Colosseum: present state and reconstruction.
“Qui dove si erge l’enorme mole del venerabile anfiteatro, vi era il lago di Nerone” (Marziale). Dalla Domus
Aurea al Colosseo: stato attuale e ricostruzione.

[@brober]

Toured the ruins of Nero's crib just last month. They are trying to stabilize the underground rooms which are buried 60 feet below the park above. The wall murals are badly faded. It is huge. Thanks for this reconstruction as it is hard to visualize from the dark caves that remain the brilliant beauty of what once was. Still if you get a chance to vist the Domus Aurea on weekends only, take it. Fascinating tour.

[@GoodVideos4]

I read that a section of it recently collapsed.

[@GreenGestalt]

"This is how a Man should live!" - Nero

[@neilpeartspurplenose8739]

He wasn't wrong!

[@marcob4630]

Rome was the greatest civilisation on Earth!

[@alinaknox5773]

I went inside the ruins yesterday. Amazing!

[@ManuelGarcia-vt1hk]

Nunca me imagine que el Domus Aurea fuese tan enorme! la recreacion comparativa es extraordinaria, te Felicito y agradezco muchísimo.

[@marshalllittleton8832]

The side view of this building with the grassy slope reminds me of a dream I had one time.

[@yves-noel-mariegonnet1043]

Magnificent! Extraordinary! Splendid! Admirable! Well done! Well done! Well done! And thank you! Magnifique! Extraordinaire! Splendide! Admirable! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Et Merci!

[@TheMBmulti]

At last I can live like a human being!

[@MrRobbyvent]

I live near Rome and visited the Domus Aurea since I was a kid and I know these places very well. These are so familiar to me. But... OMG ...look at this! It was so huge! Had no idea before!

[@marinspasov7814]

Circa 80-100 ettari

[@LOLERXP]

It's pretty amazing how quickly the emperorship turned into a self-gratification tool for unloved teenagers with the right dad.

[@MissMCwuffles]

Well, that's one way to get everyone to see your selfie.

[@saraswatkin9226]

This is Brilliant, thank you Altair 4. Visited the site recently and I am still in awe of the ruins, this computer regeneration of what it once was is like the icing on a cake.

[@motorbike650]

Thanks for this amazing video...At last we can see how splendid ancient Rome was.

[@corvette1999100]

The artists rendering of the colossus of Nero is incredible! I wish I could find that sculpture somewhere.

[@sedelstein]

Try to look up at the church bells throughout Rome; I'm sure you'll find it.

[@larrym.johnson9219]

@@sedelstein just where it should be.

[@andironaldomarbun2336]

Everything about ancient civilizations was huge and magnificent

[@explorer1968]

The mind-boggling artistic decor of the Domus Aurea super mansion astonishes the eye!! Shame it was the creature of a monster ruler who practically bankrupted the Roman Empire and caused civil war!!

[@showyourvidz]

So many buildings. I wonder how this palace worked. What were all those buildings used for? How long, for example, did it take for Nero to walk from the dining room to his bed room?

[@larrym.johnson9219]

@@saulruiz5811 Thanks

[@DDDSD615]

Numai niște cretini și niște minți nebune au putut gândi și face asemenea enormități în timp ce mii și mii de oameni mureau de foame, sete și trăiau ca vaaaaaaaaide mama lor, atât la Roma cât și la Versailles. Nero un drac nenorocit și Ludovic al XlV - lea alt drac, ăștia au fost oameni cu deviații sexuale severe ca dealtminteri : stalin, hitler, lenin, Carol al doilea al României și muuuuuuuuulți alții ca ei !

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Thank you for this wonderful work. I can't imagine what it was like in the old days to come across the city of Rome.

[@heru-deshet359]

Rome will never look as beautiful as ancient Rome.

[@nondescript2892]

This is not ancient Rome...this is the folly of a super rich tyrant...the real Rome was more like a medival middle eastern souk...a spidersweb of narrow dark alleys, noise, dirt and overpopulation....and oh yes..forget all those domes and grand open squares and broad triumphal lanes ..it wasn't like you see in the movies

[@heru-deshet359]

@@nondescript2892 Next time you take a trip in your time machine, please take me with you. Lol. I meant that the pristine architecture that is not evident now must have been breath taking then.

[@germanicvsivlivscsar4364]

@@nondescript2892 AVE•NERO

[@saraswatkin9226]

Amazing video. Thank you.

[@Nighthawk799]

The magnificence of the roman architecture had no rivals in the ancient world.Beautiful reconstruction. The White House here in the US fades in comparison!

[@jcguy6608]

Great video, thank you

[@MH-ms1dg]

when you realize the Palace of Versailles is actually nothing new...

[@Knuckles549]

a literal McMansion compared to the structures of the great Roman Empire

[@yippee8570]

Wow! I don't know why this came up in my recommended but I have to go and read about this now. Fantastic video!

[@larrym.johnson9219]

I'm sure that made their day it's a fantastic video what great things we can do when we use our talents the way God meant them to be.

[@eugenolo]

Nerone, il mio imperatore preferito con tutte le sue contraddizioni. Bellissima la idea di sovrapporre antico e moderno. Bravo! Gran bel lavoro.

[@brunarizzardo3700]

Che meraviglia

[@michaelfisher7170]

This construction, IMO, is why Nero found himself accused of starting or at least not properly responding to the fire that gutted Rome in his reign. Its likely slander, he simply grabbed up that prime real estate after the fact, but, in terms of PR, it was a stupid move. I love the overlapping pictures of the site, the Domus, the Colesseum, and today...and knowing the Domus is still there, underneath all that modern construction is amazing.

[@marshalllittleton8832]

When the side view of the lawn is shown at about the 02:20 mark, that scene reminds me of a dream I had when I was young.

[@fritzrue]

Fantastic video! Very well done!

[@andrewbell2712]

I visited the Domus Aurea in 2000. Nero had his architects make room after room using the famous Roman arch entranceway, with a glorious central room, flanked by ten or so smaller rooms on each side. The rooms were all frescoed with scenes from Roman mythology, or repetitive, stylized floral motifs, in what must have been spectacular looking then, but showy and uninspired today. The paintings were all badly damaged and not yet restored when I visited with my tourist group. The palace today was about 30 feet underground, and the beauty and luxury and vast extent of the palace compound were hard to imagine. This video, showing the glorious statue of Apollo or Hyperion, and also the artificial lake with the Roman warship/yacht in its center, restores the Domus Aurea to its spectacular and magnificent original state. The Roman treasury nearly went bankrupt paying for this huge private obsession of Nero's. The palace makes William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate look like an ant hill in comparison. Really, when you think of it, it's a good reason not to vote for the next pompous and priveliged dictator the next time he rolls around. Of course, you might not have a choice in the matter, as by then it will be too late to make a difference. Down with the Neros, Mussollinis, and all their clones, Russian, British, Roman, Greek, Chinese, German, French or American!

[@alpineareas8629]

that lake is where the colliseum is now.

[@TheMintyMelon]

Wow.... just WOW.. Big thank you !!!^_^!!!

[@joelalvarado3197]

Amazing video and congratulations for the excellent computer skills that make us see how ancient Rome was at the time of emperor Nero...l hope next trip to Italy to visit the Domus Áurea...thanks and keep up the good work in ancient buildings.

[@laurolavanda1807]

Nice!

[@jhstinson62]

¡IMPRESIONANTE!

[@gerhardpich1086]

Make Rome great again...

[@sophialoren7855]

It's never un-great

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Rome is great as it is, b/c they have no slaves. And if you live in the US, you know that our legacy of great wealth made us the modern day Rome. So, I call this Romerica, another nation built on slavery and expansion (albeit mostly economic expansion). They're similar in unseen ways.

[@globalko]

Nah bruh we today are leagues ahead

[@KRISTIANITY_]

So utterly amazing! Excellent reconstruction and great viewpoints!

[@ivonekebbe4459]

BELISSIMO VIDEO. ESTIVE NAS RUINAS DA DOMUS AUREA.THANK YOU BRASIL

[@carlovetrano2801]

Bellissima ricostruzione in 3D!

[@orionmiller3785]

Loved this video 10/10

[@3ducksinamansuit]

"Finally, a house fit for a human being"

[@danielschoch9604]

What a wonderful simulation!

[@LionofLight777]

Good job...New Subscriber .✌😉

[@randomgoddess5969]

Exquisite

[@lucaschiantodipepe2015]

From the big statue of Nero, the "colosso", the "Colosseo" name comes.

[@jurassicpork]

I knew Nero was overweight but, Christ! How much space does one guy need?

[@nicolapettorosso221]

Come to think about it.........enough to shock and awe the masses as much as possible.

[@paoloviti6156]

@@nicolapettorosso221 not only that, with his flair for theatrics, he was possibly one of most popular emperor Rome ever had...

[@seanledden4397]

Interesting how this astounding palace with it's gold colossus disappeared from the western imagination for so long.

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

after Neros death this entire area was given back to the City of Rome and the Collosseum was build in where the artificial lake was.

[@rileywolf5432]

I know I’ve seen this somewhere before. I think it was on a history channel marathon about Ancient Rome and it’s engineering marvels.

[@williamkirby3552]

You can tell how much of a child Nero remained within the psychopathic adult he became by the outsized boat in the undersized lake. Can't you just imagine him sitting crosslegged in his little forecastle directing his oarsmen in mock battles like a toddler playing in his bathtub? The poor boat hardly has room to turn around. But god knows he wasn't going to putter about in a little toy ship hardly big enough to hold him. Better to be a big ship in a little pond than a little ship in a ... well you know. I'd bet a lot of money he combed his hair in front of a very small mirror.

[@ThomasHarding1990]

This is FUC*!NG AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Luboman411]

At 4:30. I was deeply impressed with the size of Nero's palace. Then when you see it superimposed on the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, it doesn't seem as big. Take away the giant pool with the boat inside and you get the rough of equivalent of Quirinale Palace in modern-day Rome, which is roughly the size of the Domus Aurea. Nero's gardens are just as big and expansive as the gardens at the Quirinale. Except the Quirinale is a real palace built by the popes over the centuries and now serves as the fabulous, opulent home of the President of Italy. It makes the White House look like a shack. :D

[@v.8097]

this is super amazing, really good for a better imagination

[@maxtzetung]

Bella la ricostruzione della statua di Nerone

[@tommytom2065]

Era la capitale del mondo le sue bellezze ,l'ho e ancora oggi a parte chi la governa male non facendola splendere come una volta ci sonno millenni di beltà da fare conoscere al mondo ,forza Roma 🌈👍🥰❤️

[@Hannibal953able]

Amazing structure. If I was a Roman citizen I would be fucking livid with having to pay taxes to pay for it though. Especially after the great fire destroyed a good portion of the city.

[@Misses-Hippy]

Well, Hannibal would say that!

[@khawlasky91]

داموس حوريه .. كلمة داموس كلمه امزيغه نستخدمها في ليبيا الجبل حتي الان.. وتعني داموس المهجع او البيت ان كان صغير جدا او قصر .. و حوريه اسم علم ..مرماد .. وكلها تعني .. مهجع حوريه

[@paisleypeacock]

*Divine*

[@GoodVideos4]

I was wondering how much of the Domus Aurea was actually built, and inhabited.

[@mikedouglas1008]

I'm sorry thats better than any colosseum

[@abdulhakimsaid9264]

En hoş videoklip maşallah vesselâm!Salve et vale!Pulcher est,gaudeo mihi,gratias ago!!!

[@Damidas]

That giant statue is creepy as shit! It probably gave people nightmares

[@classicmoments9433]

What was the buck naked statue supposed to represent? How did they get it to stand upright?

[@paoloviti6156]

It is quite possible that this massive 30 mt bronze statue that represents Sol Invictus or "Unconquered Sun" that was the official sun god of late Roman empire

[@bettyferrel2450]

La estatua es imponente y hasta da miedo,creo que no podría pasar por su lado sin que se me herize la piel.

[@mikkenieminen9603]

I want to travel back to Rome

[@Knuckles549]

I hope one day we will with the technology of VR

[@DininDalael]

Sure it was big but it needed to fit Nero's ego.

[@andreeaeni9442]

Could somebody tell me the name of the song in this video, please! I love it!

[@PeterPaul175]

The stupid clock gets in the way!

[@Parzival224]

If we think that those architects made all this without eve a "diploma"! a piece o paper without which we can do nothing today even talk about architecture.

[@DevonExplorer]

Rome thrived on dockets; it was probably the most bureaucratic nation in the history of the world, lol. The palace would also have contained myriads of secretaries, scribes, information gatherers, freedmen and slaves, all beavering away for the state and everything beneath it, including new architecture, architects, surveyors, site managers, builders, procurers of materials and other workers. Amazing organisation! :)

[@Klaatu-Gort]

What on earth are those numbers? Coordinates? Clock?

[@golgumbazguide...4113]

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[@merlino16]

Caspita ….che ne fai della Reggia di Caserta !

[@v.8097]

by the way the music is fantastic

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Clearly they bel'd in taming nature. They did exactly that. And we have followed suit in our cities.

[@crissy214]

Talk about a cash sink hole on the roman treasury

[@brunorossibonin788]

3:30 The Sun god 'Sol' was hot! Quite litterary I imagine... kk

[@itoldyou5202]

goddamn, and I still live in my parents basement. smh

[@drania76]

Is this a ship or just an architectural joke, ship like building, probably a temple?

[@kaijixpapa178]

yes some royal egyptian ships where built like this. this is antiquity my friend. maybe you used to mid ages

[@drania76]

@Kaijix Soare, I’m used to present my friend. Looks like an architectural joke, a ship shaped building, Neptun’s temple probably. A God ridding a chariot is Neptune. As we all know Neptune was a Greek deity Poseidon and a horse was a sacred animal dedicated to Poseydon. Do you remember Trojan war Kaijix? The Trojan Horse was a sculpture made out of one of the disassembled ship to honour Poseidon on his day. Is that correct? You are correct, Egyptian flat bottom ships have a lot to do with the Roman ones let alone Viking ones.

[@MH-ms1dg]

@@drania76 There were actually two real Ancient Roman ships which were used as stationary, imperial luxury barges in Lake Nemi, nowadays there is a whole museum dedicated to them.

[@drania76]

@@MH-ms1dg Thank you so much.

[@lumenpraetorius4592]

All this for one man, who was assassinated shortly after his estate was completed.

[@neilpeartspurplenose8739]

He committed suicide, he wasn't assassinated. You're probably thinking of Caligula.

[@lumenpraetorius4592]

@@neilpeartspurplenose8739 Indeed. A minor senior moment on my part.

[@GoodVideos4]

Quite impressive that Domus Aurea. The Domus Aurea was not completed. It makes me wonder if the video shows the uncompleted parts. I wonder also what is the purpose of that stupid, irritating clock.

[@saucysalmon]

source?

[@MatthewEcclesiastes]

17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. Ecclesiastes 2:17-19

[@spektakelkd]

Was the statue of Nero moved ? I thought the foundations for that statue was right outside the amphitheatre?

[@alpineareas8629]

the statue stayed, the coliseum floor is where the lake is. thats how they had sea battles when it first opened.

[@ariefakmalmuhammadzulkifli7662]

The statue was moved not stayed

[@marilenagranata7298]

quale grandezza passata, e quale miseria attuale !!

[@khawlasky91]

داموس حوريه .. كلمه امزيغيغه وكلمه عربيه .. مهجع بيت مؤوا الحوريه

[@elizaemergente1956]

Hoje somos livres antigamente escravos

[@elizaemergente1956]

Nen por isso deixam de ser um povo italiano como ninguém

[@bryce3754]

Nero was a crazy b*tch but he had taste

[@danielfarrel7524]

La Domus de Nerón , es la culminación del arte romano en su mas esquisita representación. (Nunca tan horrible como Versailles)

[@Tintinabulo1]

Versalles es magnífica, y sus jardines esplendorosos.

[@ciscomail1315]

This "modest" house was the residence of Nero builted after that Rome burned and before te construction of Colusseum....

[@drom268]

Hola en otra epoca fui Neron. No me gusta el lujo por supuesto ni las guerras nada bélicos. Ni las edtatuas gigantes.pues me gusta estsr en segundo plano dada mi timidez.. me gusta ayudar a la gente. He sido miembro de una ONG en esta vida soy mujer estoy casad con un apostol Juan

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Great work but a big mistake with the music. This is not the ambiance of imperial rome. Why not find something authentique, it ruins the whole feel.

[@user-gg1fn4so3s]

so the is emperor nero's palace if iam right if it is rich fuck and if it's one of his palace richer fuck but it's cool to see the history in this how it changed and iam off there

[@dojufitz]

Nero (54-68AD) gets a bad rap from history. The popular one is his burned Rome so he could build a palace and played the fiddle as it all unfounded. During July of 64 AD, a great fire ravaged Rome for six days, destroying 70% of the city and leaving half its population homeless. The fake news created by his enemies was that the decadent and unpopular Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.” That story was crafted by his enemies who today would be CNN, Washington Post, and New York Times, and the Democrats. It was clearly the ancient fabrication of fake news. For one thing, the fiddle didn’t exist in ancient Rome since it only made its appearance during the 11th century. There is no such evidence that Nero played anything during the great fire. The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56-120AD) wrote that Nero was rumored to have sung about the destruction of Troy while watching the city burn; however, he stated clearly that this was unconfirmed by eyewitness accounts. That was the origin of the saying. When the Great Fire broke out, Nero was at his villa at Antium, some 35 miles from Rome. Nero’s unpopularity developed originally from his mother, Agrippina, Jr., who was a dominate mother and a power hungry woman with many attributes of Hillary Clinton. Agrippina, Jr. was the first woman whose portrait appeared on Roman gold coins during her lifetime. She was first banished by her brother Caligula for being suspected of a plot against him to take the throne. She was very lucky to escape that one with her life. She then connived to marry her uncle, Claudius. The plot then thickens for Claudius’s heir, his son Britanicus, is then poisoned. Some attributed this to Nero, but it seems more likely the deed of his mother. Upon Claudius’s death, which she also may have aided with poison, she really rules the empire in her son’s name who was still a teenage boy much as Hillary ruled the country while Bill fiddled around. These stories clearly circulated in Rome and resulted in Nero being very unpopular.The true story of Nero, not the fake news version crafted by his enemies as we see going on by CNN and others today with respect to Trump, was that Nero immediately returned and began relief measures to help the people. They still didn’t trust him for his reputation preceded him. His enemies started the rumor that Nero had ordered the fire started, especially after he used land cleared by the fire to build his Golden Palace and its surrounding pleasure gardens. That was not a good decision, which only created conspiracy theories. Nero himself blamed the Christians for the fire, and had many arrested and executed beginning the Christian persecutions when he was not executing them for their religion at that time. He just needed a scapegoat. The real source of the stories against Nero are identical in human nature to those spun by career politicians and mainstream media against Trump today. Today, Trump is accused of discriminating against Muslims when it is the same six countries Obama had classified as terrorist nations.. As further complaints arose from the people that the poor were being overly taxed, Nero attempted to repeal all indirect taxes. The Senate convinced him this action would bankrupt the public treasury. As a compromise, taxes were cut from 4.5% to 2.5%. He also began the first debasement of the silver coinage whereas the average fineness pre-64AD was 97.5% as this was reduced to 93.5%. The weight of the silver denarius was also reduced from 3.63 grams to 3.36 grams in 64AD. Nero not only reduced taxes, he also gave slaves permission to file civil complaints against unjust masters, which was very shocking to many. Now the elite really got angry. Nero also imposed a tax of 4% on the sale of slaves that was to be remitted by the seller. Nevertheless, purchasers typically found that the tax was merely added as part of the price in a European VAT fashion. Nero also established retirement colonies of veterans in Italy. There were simply many deeds he enacted prior to 64AD that reveal a decent administrator of the Empire. Nero even attempted to promote free trade by removing all indirect taxes. However, this proved too difficult to administer due to the pervasive corruption. There is clearly the same plot to overthrow Trump from the Deep State supported by CNN, Washington Post, and the New York Times, which have shown to the world their moral corruption. History repeats because human nature never changes.

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Mainstream media, however, maligns everyone, not just Conservatives. Mainstream media got behind both Persian Gulf wars if you recall and didn't begin calling Bush out until the WMD debacle surfaced. Mainstream Media sells air time. They really don't care about politics, just whatever sells. If you notice, they cover Black Lives Matter and gave Trump thousands of hours of speaking time during his bid for the presidency. If they lean left, it's only when it suits them. When it doesn't, they either go mute or make excuses. It's a business above all else. Both parties subscribe to scarcity and power grabbing. No saints or humanitarians play in the game of thrones - NONE.

[@stevenpilling3773]

I'd say that the proclivity of the modern press to the left is well established! Good information here.

[@paoloviti6156]

Interesting and informative but nowadays nothing really changed thanks to the media and wildly cheating today President Trump left the White House...

[@scattozx]

The house of lucifer blood lines.

[@mikkenieminen9603]

Modern architecture and building skills sucks most of times