Domus Aurea

The Golden Palace is a palace built by the ancient Roman emperor Nero for himself. It is located on the Palatine Hill, Oppian Hill and Celian Hill. It has banquet halls, cisterns, bathrooms and terrace lights. In 64 AD, there was a fire and the surface of the Golden Palace was covered with gold, hence the name Golden Palace. The huge palace Golden Palace has a total construction area of 800,000 square meters, which is 80,000 square meters larger than the largest existing palace complex in the world, the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. There are more than 300 rooms in the existing area of 9290 square meters of the site, of which 150 have been excavated, and only 32 have been visited by tourists. The beauty of decoration Those who have seen "The Burning of the City of the Tyrant" must be impressed by the Emperor Nero in the play, the tyrant who even burned down Rome in order to build his own palace. The Golden Palace is his residence. There are more than 100 halls. The decoration is very luxurious. The walls are covered with frescoes, gold and various pearls and gems. The ceiling is paved with ivory. The historical value of the Domus Aurea lies in the fact that it expresses the aesthetics of grand architecture and becomes a model of imperial style in Roman architecture during the reigns of Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian and other emperors.