8 Exceptionally Well Preserved Roman Buildings (Outside Italy) 

Survivorship bias is a real thing.

@@DallasMay 100x this. 99.99% of Roman structures are gone. We're seeing the few that escaped destruction. The flak towers in Berlin will probably still be around in 2000 years too if we don't knock them down ourselves.

The survivorship bias is absolutely true. The buildings that survive are by far the exception. The Roman equivalent of apartment buildings and things of that nature did not last. The things that did, are the sort of grand monuments, funded by the wealth of emperors and built by slaves over many years. That is why those ones are the ones that are still around. If we in the present wanted to dedicate the time, resources, and effort to build things that would last thousands of years, we totally could. However, the cost of doing that is generally not considered worth it in the current day.

@@Bawhoppen A lot of what we are building today will still be here 10000 years from now, unless we intentionally demo it. The travesty of Mt. Rushmore will be visible to our far distance descendants 100,000,000 years from now.

@@tripplefives1402 eh. 🤷

I'm from the Philippines, and as a citizen of a country that was colonized by the Spanish Empire for 333 years, I always get fascinated and look unto their influence and it roots back to the Romans, their architecture, traditions, and language, could be seen also in our country and it feels crazy. Most of our old buildings and some words in our language are of Latin influence while being in the far east Asia.

Alea jacta est ... Me too ! Rome was a Great Culture !

Same! Idk why they just seemed very cool

Understandable, those people achieved something remarkable, its like if we in our time would colonize a quarter of our solar system,

in Greece we have these old apartment buildings surrounding everything, be it ancient greek and roman or even neoclassical. Only in a few places we have laws for building in a specific design. That's even worse.

@@tripplefives1402 yeah it sort of is like that.

All these structures were made after the area was taken by Roman force (war.........)

@@rensd12 Not all of them but a lot for sure. But few things to think of before saying "boo roman bad". The Roman Empire stayed for a long time because it had a good and working system. Far better than the provinces they "conquered" and vastly improved life quality all over the place. Talking about conquest, they often took the head of the provinces with little to no force at all. In fact some of them were still governed by the same people. And finally, for the vast majority of the provinces they took were in the past colonised or invaded by other populations. Roman were not the first and not the last. And people tend to only put colonisation next to white/western civilisations, but they represent very little to all conquests/invasions the world have seen.

“On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment during a siege of the Acropolis. The resulting explosion severely damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures.” “Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures". British Museum. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013.

I can confirm this one. Have been there about a month ago. Magnificent sights

My favorite german city!

@david edbrooke-coffin we don't care what you have or haven't heard of, tbh.

@@Risperanto I care thought, so speak for yourself and not by "we"

I went to Split, and did not realize it was there until I went to the city center. I was blown away at how amazing it was, and that it was just...there. just wow.

Yeah thats why I talked about it in the first video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-72owaA_K_-k.html

I'm somewhat of a History buff and when I backpacked alone through western Europe at 25, I was hitchhiking and by pure chance stumbled upon it when I was dropped in Nîmes by some butcher going to work. I was... pleasantly surprised and amazed.

the hagia sophia still exists

@@srbtlevse16 yes i know and the pantheon also.. in Rome.

You are right about Hagia Sophia, it should be counted as well, the building was built 200 year or so after the tetrarchy and it is during the late Roman imperial era and early byzantine.

Probably a lot more due to deep concrete foundations

The answer is none.

Glad you like them!

Good idea, indeed

few?

there's also Cyrenaica

Glad you like them Tom 🙏

As is the theatre in Plovdiv,Bulgaria

😢🇮🇹Pola was part of Italy. At the time of the first emperor Octavian Augustus the city was included in the Venetia et Histria region.

Thanks Serkan, you are correct. I will have to make another video. I could probably do a whole video of amazing ruins in Istanbul/Constantinople.

Constantinople not Istanbul

@@kostasangisoulaki912 no one gives a shit, stop humiliating yourself

For me, the Arch and Rotunda are in a sad state in Salonica. Seems there is a minimal effort to protect them and nearly no effort to restore/preserve. I'm glad it is at least protected. 🙏

Will do! Glad you like them! 😉

@@TheSPQRHistorian You forgot Diocletian's Palace in Split

I talk about Nimes here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-72owaA_K_-k.html

Glad you enjoyed it

Oh thank you! 🙏 Yeah I considered having it in this video, and it's a fantastic bath, but it was so heavily rebuilt during the victorian era I decided against it 🤔

@@TheSPQRHistorian Ah, I didn't realise that. Typical of the Victorians though, they rebuilt almost everything!

i went to the Roman baths in about 1966 with my school Moredon juniors Swindon we were one of the last schools to swim there as you were allowed then

@@ozzispurs8461 Wow, what a great place to swim. :)

Definitely! I've seen some of them in real life, but would like to visit all of them!

I'll check it out! I was in Pula a few years ago and I really love the place, friendly people and amazing sites 🏛

The oldest preseved roman wall is in tarragona (tarraco), is also in spain.

Missing is the aqueduct le pont du guard

@@felicetanka Also not to include something from Mérida is pretty much a sin

The one of Nîmes is pretty good! We have quite a lot of them still standing in France

Thank you very much!

Give us back Constantinople 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Also surpised he didn't talk about Merida in these videos

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-72owaA_K_-k.html

@@TheSPQRHistorian Thanks 👍

Thanks, yeah I saw that Google Eath trick used somewhere and I knew it would be perfect for a video like this 🙏

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Thanks! I'm not sure yet, but that's what I'm working on at the moment. I might hold on it tho because I know the next video after Nerva will be a long one... 😉

It needs to be restored!

It is fascinating how Roman Empire could be seen as a military/politic/economic and architectural giant yet in science they didnt shine that much. Funny how they were so smart and intellectual on those three thing and not in science.

@@antoniopaveskovic1990 Science is a very broad topic. All of the things mentioned could be considered sciences. If by sciences you mean chemistry, physics, or stuff like that, Roman concrete was technically a chemistry-esque invention of theirs, Its odd composition allowed it to be incredibly water resistant. In physics, pretty much all of architecture is using some kind of physics. Warfare had to make use of the technologies of the time of course, think metal weapons and armor. The thing about words is that they hold different meanings for everyone, if slightly, so what does science mean to you?

@@antoniopaveskovic1990 I'd argue they were very scientifically advanced, particularly in engineering.

@@toddhoward1892 The Romans were experimentalists while the Greeks were theorists

Sport stadium/theater. But they make a lot of more things, like battles recunstructions and naval battles too(called “naumachie”)

I didnt forget; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-72owaA_K_-k.html

😢🇮🇹Pola was part of Italy. At the time of the first emperor Octavian Augustus the city was included in the Venetia et Histria region.

@@alessiorenzoni5586 yes I know the whole istrian coast was part of Italy. That's why it looks so much alike

Tackar, stämmer bra 😄

Yeah, I cover some of those in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-72owaA_K_-k.html