Once inside, you will be able to appreciate a unique palace, about which Roman writers of the time wrote extensively. If you are curious about this residence of Nero, remember that you should make a prior booking to see it. However, these efforts to erase Nero’s work meant that, over time, they created the very conditions necessary for the correct conservation of the Domus Aurea.ĭespite this fact, visiting the spot is complicated and the palace has been open and closed to the public on several occasions for reasons of safety. The emperors who followed also contributed to the gradual disappearance of the palace: Titus and Trajan built complexes of spas and temples over it, and Hadrian sited the Temple of Venus and Rome in the vestibule. It was a complex of halls, gardens, courtyards and even a large artificial lake, the same lake over which later Emperor Vespasian would build the Colisseum. This building, constructed in the area destroyed by the fire of 64, was conceived as an enormous and luxurious palace. This is what Nero said the first time he set foot in the Domus Aurea. “Good! Now at last I can begin to live like a human being”.

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