What are the preserved buildings in the Roman Empire? 

Meanwhile in California, USA I've had to replace the foundation on my home because it was forty years old, and was deteriorating under the crushing weight of a single story residence made of wood and gypsum board.

There's a roman built lighthouse in northern Spain, 55meters high, that's still being used today and has rarely stopped working in the last 2000 years. Even during maintenance and light upgrades a way must be insured that it does not stop shinning since ship traffic is counting on it.

La maison carré in Nîmes, France, is the most intact marble temple of the empire. The Roman theatre of orange is also in such fabulous complete state...

Diocletian's palace in Split is one of my absolute favorite places to visit. It's incredibly well preserved and it's a living reminder of the past. Walking down the marble streets at night is absolutely magical.

Aside from the Pantheon of Rome, two of the best preserved roman temples can be seen in France : the Maison carrée ("square house") in Nîmes, and the temple of Augustus and Livia in Vienne. The theatre of Orange may also be one of the best preserved theatres in the whole empire, with a nearly complete scene building.

Without a doubt the Pantheon is my favorite Roman building. Every time I visit there is more to see and to be filled with wonder. While I know that the catacombs aren’t buildings they also fill me with awe and wonder that people without all of our modern construction tools were able to construct not only miles of burial niches but chapels and meeting rooms underground. Mind boggling.😮

When my family and I moved to Germany years ago a neighbor invited us to go on a volksmarch that meandered through a beautiful forest. When I commented on the lovely stone path we were walking on, my host informed me that we were on an ancient Roman road. It took my breath away to know that I was walking on a road that was over 2,000 years old. As an American, we tend to tear down anything much over 50 years or so. We do have buildings that date back to the 1600's on the East coast but not where I come from. The closest we come is ancient Native American structures, but actually, few Americans have actually seen them in person because most are so remote. Love your series.

The Diocletian baths are totally overlooked by tourist guides. The first time i went to Rome I knew nothing about them, I visited the church and admired the various domes etc around the area not knowing they were all from the same complex until I actually visited the museum. The site is/was massive.

Just back from Rome. After touring the Coliseum, the forum and Pantheon I am awed by the monumental engineering of these impressive structures. Huge imposing beautiful architectural buildings projecting power and culture.

I saw lots of good Roman stuff while driving around Spain back in 1996. The aqueduct at Segovia was awesome, and Mérida (The name is a worn-down form of Emerita Augusta) had a theatre, amphitheatre, circus, aqueduct, villa, etc.

The Roman fort at Hardknott Pass (Mediobogdum) in England's Lake District is one of my favourite Roman sites in antiquity. It is remote, in the most stunning landscape, beneath and amidst England's highest mountains and is well preserved with curtain wall, internal structures, nearby bath house and parade ground to boot. If you're up this way I recommend you take a look (I'd even be your local guide). Ad altiora!

The Nimes Arena still hosts annual Roman Games (I believe around March or April), which is my argument for the most interesting experience in a well preserved Roman building. It's one thing to be in a 2,000 year old building and wonder how it must have been when it was new, it's something most of us can't even fathom to get to take in the entertainment that would have been there 2,000 years ago.

Also the Arena in Pula, Croatia. It is said to have the best preserved exteriors (mantel) amongst all Roman amphitheatres. Built at the same time as the one in Rome.

It sometimes blows my mind when seeing Roman ruins in places like the Middle East and Egypt. They are so associated with a very foreign culture, a different people and a strange language. And yet, they also have the ruins of the same Empire as that of France, Spain, Italy, Romania... Even today, all over the western world, we still use their columns and their architecture. I mean, I'm even using their alphabet right now.

Here's some from Bulgaria which are often overlooked. St.George's Routonda in Sofia. Build in the mid 4th century in what was then "Constantine's quarter". St. Sophia basilica 6th century contemporary to its grander sister Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, it gave the city of Sofia its name. The Roman Theater in Philippopolis (Plovdiv) 1st century, still used for performances weekly. The Ancient chariot racing stadium in Philippopolis (Plovdiv) 1st century, almost entirely preserved beneath the main pedestrian street, sections in the basements of shops and the entrance way are excavated, showing the amazing preservation.

The Verona Arena needs to be on the list. It`s been in use for 2000 years almost.

I'll just mention an impressive Roman monument in my city, the Rotunda of Thessaloniki.

Leptis Magna in Libya is incredible, was there in eighties, the beautiful marble sculptures were lying on the ground as if the city was inhabited yesterday

Awesome! I would also add the Arena di Verona, it's incredible that it is still being used after 2000 years

The building in Germany is amazing. It looks so modern from the outside. I’d do anything to be able to go back to that time for a day.

Thank you for posting.

Good video and enthusiastic narration, great work!

The Maison Carrée in Nimes, France is a completely intact Roman temple since, like the Pantheon, it was converted into a church. It served as the inspiration for many civic buildings in Europe and North America from the Renaissance onward. The new archeological museum The Musée de la Romanité in Nimes is also worth a visit. And while aqueducts may not count as buildings, one of my favorites, The Tarraco aqueduct, is just outside Tarragona, Spain. For late antiquity, Santa Sabina, on the Aventine Hill in Rome, resembles the Trier basilica and is completely intact with its beautiful marble revetment and Corinthian columns (from the imperial repository so not spoila). Only one large mosaic remains, but it is still impressive. One can only imagine how spectacular Constantine's massive Old St. Peter's Basilica must've been. I have yet to visit the intact churches of late antiquity in Ravenna. Regarding the Pantheon, when I visited I was told the floor marble is in fact the original (so not a copy).

Very well done! Quite informative.

Excellent video. Thank you.

Truly amazing! Thank you so much for making this video.

Fantastic! Thanks!

GRAZIE ! Siete assolutamente i MIGLIORI , è un grande piacere guardare le vostre narrazioni !

The pantheon is amazing. Looking up for the first time is truly insane.

As always, amazing work

Great video, I'm happy to say I've seen a few of these but of course so many things still to go.

Excellent video!

Amazing that buildings built almost 2000 years ago with "ordinary" bricks- the same size as we have today, can still be standing- and not just standing, but well preserved. In habitable condition. That concrete is something else. The majesty of Rome really was.

Love this, had no idea so much still preserved

I've been to the hall in Trier, absolutely superb. Not super preserved in terms of the whole building, but they recently uncovered another roman villa around my city in Buckinghamshire, England, with a stunning mosaic in very good condition.

Wow! Thank you very much!

I guess Pompeii and Herculaneum are kinda like cheating... I went to Rome last year and saw most of the buildings there that feature in this video, but now I'm getting pangs of regret that I didn't get a chance to go to the baths of Diocletian. On the other side of the coin, I did get to visit the Domus Aurea- the vast palace built by Nero on public land he appropriated following the Great Fire. This was such an unpopular move that after he died it was buried in rubble and the Baths of Titus were built on top. Because of this, it was astonishingly well preserved, but is completely underground. Only part of it has been cleared out and only part of that is open to the public, but you can book a guided tour, and it's truly amazing. You can walk for what seems like hundreds of metres through its completely intact halls, all under the earth. Many of the rooms still have their original plaster and magnificent frescos Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli and the ruins of Ostia (both near Rome) also have some impressively intact buildings.

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In my town, Genova, Italia, and around there are some beautiful roman bridges, that are in excellent conditions and so beautiful to watch. It's crazy because one modern bridge built in the 1960 collapsed few years ago causing many deaths, and others bridges were destroyed by 4-5 gigantic floods in a period of 40-45 years (about 1970-2015).

Yes! A look around the Empire😌 As long as it lives in our hearts and inspires us to new greatness, it is not yet lost!

Love it.. Love it.. Love it.

2:46 - I can confirm that this market feels like it has been built yesterday. In fact, it does not take too long for modern buildings to fall into ruin.

😊 thank you!

Thank you, this is eye-opening, makes me want to travel, esp to Split

Thanks for the video. I knew of some of these buildings but quite a few were new to me. Cool.

Thanks for all these features. You might have added two (and I recommend everyone of you check them out) : the "maison carrée" in Nimes, Southern Franced, probably the most beautiful extant Roman temple, and the Roman arenas of both Nimes and Arles. More than impressive, and still used today.

Great. Thank you

Great video…Very informative

I wish I could visit all of these places. Thank you for the virtual whirl wind tour of the ancient Roman Empire. Impressive.

Thank you

all very good! thank you

Awsome vid. great VO

i’d known about a few of these, but there were so many i had never even heard of! stunning buildings!

Great presentation!

Thank you very much for this very interesting video ! Very impressive…

Missing the Arena of Nîmes, which are amazingly still used as an arena today.

Paris lost a lot, but there is a great museum of the Middle Ages on the Boulevard St Michel which had huge Roman baths under it which you can visit. The Arenes de Lutece are the arena. And under the courtyard of the cathedral of Notre Dame is the parvis, which is Roman. Someone mentioned walls and there are Roman walls at Canterbury, at York, and of course London.

thanks for your infectious enthusiasm. truly magnificent and surreal, seems like we're breathing the same breaths as the ancients!

I have yet to get inside the Curia . But I have went to see the original Bronze doors from it. These are found at the Basilica St Giovanni Laterano. They are magnificent. Great video.

I'm a new subscriber to your channel. Pls don't give up on making these kinds of videos. Greetings from Cebu City, Philippines.

Muchas gracias 😊 Saludos desde México

Agia Sophia was built as an Greek Orthodox church and served as the imperial church until Turko-jihadis converted the church to a mosque. This is an important detail that was omitted.

Teier has one of Europe's richest architectural histories alive today. From truly ancient Roman buildings, medieval era and postwar modernism. One of the greatest cities in the world for architecture AND food AND wine! Love Trier!

thanks for sharing : Aula Palatina it's near my home, this is the bewt well preserved basilic from Chistian roman period : made under emperor Constantin ! Porta nigra is also in Trier ! viva SPQR !!

Really appreciate your videos. It allows me to recognize that the Roman architecture is really on a far smaller scale than my imagination would hold. Comparing the size of any of these buildings to anything our civilization has erected shows how difficult it was in fact to build in the ancient world that these buildings would be considered impressive.

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Nice to see Kiosk of Trajan getting some love.

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The Rotunda in Thessaloniki, Greece, is also an ancient Roman building very well preserved, mainly because it was converted into the church of Saint George in the byzantine middle ages.

Great vid, you could also mention the Maison Carrée in Nimes, France and the Pont du Gard not far away ;)

So amazing to think what it must of been like

Fascinating places. Hope this can continue with visits to other countries like Spain, England and France. There is a temple in Armenia that would also have been very interesting to include.

The amphitheater of El Jem is very beautiful but the one that has the best preserved, practically intact underground and all the structures for raising and managing the animals is that of Pozzuoli, perhaps even larger than the Tunisian one.

Como siempre un estupendo vídeo e información que agradecemos--. Pero, porqué no está Gerasa ?

Good stuff! Pula didn’t make the list?

The former capital of Lusitania, Augusta Emerita (nowadays Mérida) still has some magnificent Roman ruins, such as the theatre (still in use) , the circus, aqueducts, amphiteatrum ...and the aqueduct of Segovia is something to behold at least once in a lifetime, alongside the well preserved medieval historic centre. The lighthouse of Brigantium (nowadays A Coruña) , the ancient ruins of Segóbriga, the aqueduct of Albarracín - Cella, Tarraco (nowadays Tarragona), Las Médulas (the greatest gold mine of the Empire)...Spain is filled with important and well-preserved Roman ruins, it truly was one of the most romanized territories .

Nothing about NIMES region ??? the city is called the french Rome but ok...Nimes Arena, the square house, the Pont du Gard Aqueduct.

Fantastic video. Monuments that came spontaneously to my mind are: the Roman baths in Bath/UK, the Roman bridge in Córdoba/Spain, and perhaps the amphitheater in Arles/France, although it is not quite as well preserved as the two other monuments.

France has among the best preserved Roman monument and not a single word about it… Vienne, Nîmes, pont du Gard, Orange, Saintes. In Lyon they found back a complete mosaic floor some years ago by building an elevator for a subway station. The walls of Carcassonne are build on a still visible Roman fondation. Cluny bath in Paris is astonishing and now incorporating in the medieval museum of the french capital. The Vaison la Romaine bridge was built by romans and its still in use for cars, without saying it survived multiple floods (the last time the water raise by 13meters

The Impirial hall in Trier is really cool. It's made with really long red bricks which look like they would have broken easily. It's a remarkable work .

In the tapestry of time, the Roman Empire unfurls like a phoenix soaring across the skies, its wings outstretched, casting a colossal shadow over the annals of history. A force of nature that breathed life into the ancient world, it rose from the ashes of its own genesis, fueled by the fiery passions of its architects. The majesty of this ethereal titan is embodied in the very stones that make up its grand edifices; The Colosseum, a monument to the titanic struggle for survival and glory, stands as the sun at the center of this celestial empire. Its radiant beams of light illuminate the tapestry of time, casting vibrant hues upon the annals of history. Within its hallowed walls, the echoes of a thousand triumphant roars and the clash of steel reverberate through the ages, an eternal symphony that heralds the indomitable spirit of Rome. The Roman Forum, the bustling epicenter of politics, commerce, and culture, is a labyrinth of architectural marvels, where marble columns stretch towards the heavens like divine pillars. Here, the wisdom of Cicero and the stratagems of Caesar reverberate through the whispers of the wind, and the spirits of great statesmen and philosophers linger in these corridors, their astral forms intermingling with the cosmic dust of the ages. The Pantheon, an architectural supernova, explodes with divine energy and the boundless wisdom of the cosmos. Its celestial dome, encrusted with the jewels of the heavens, captures the essence of eternity within its hallowed sanctuary. A cosmic gateway to the divine, its oculus peers into the unfathomable depths of the universe, unraveling the mysteries of the celestial bodies that dance across the firmament. The aqueducts, the sinewy veins of the empire, stretch across the land like the arteries of a sleeping giant, carrying the lifeblood of civilization to the farthest corners of the known world. An eternal testament to the ingenuity of Rome, these stone serpents quench the thirst of the empire, irrigating the fertile fields that sustain her people and nourishing the dreams and ambitions of her countless denizens. The Roman Empire, a blazing comet in the night sky, illuminates the dark corners of history with the brilliance of its achievements. Its grandeur and glory, etched into the annals of time, are immortalized in the hearts and minds of those who bear witness to its splendor. A symbol of human aspiration, the Empire represents the indomitable will to conquer the unknown, to forge a legacy that transcends the boundaries of time, and to etch our names in the stars.

Maison carré en Nîmes, Porta Praetoria in Aosta, Arena in Verona and Arles, Bulla Regia and Dugga in Tunisia, are all very well preserved pieces of roman architecture. As well Regensburg in Germany features many good monuments.

All of this absolutely pales compared to Pompei, it´s like a time machine. Just absolutely mind-blowing.

You sound AND look like John Daub, of only in Japan RU-vid channel. Great video by the way.

Beside Collogne cathedral is a remnant of a gate to the original Roman colony. The name Cologne stems, of course, from the word colony.

Another well-preserved Roman fort from the first century is Gonio, near Batumi in the country of Georgia.

You didn't include squared house in Nimes in south France ? Or even Arles arena.

In Austria 🇦🇹 in the city of Tulln there is still a tower from a Castell from the Roman period fully intact. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!

Really amazing stuff highlighted here. Pity it didn't include Bath (Somerset) or Viroconium near Wroxeter often referred to locally as 'The Old Works'.

A really beautiful arch, but the one in Orange in France is even better!

I was unaware of how much was saved as a result of conversion to Catholic Church use. I am also pleased to see how much has since been returned to preservational historical monument status open to all. Gratis.

there is some good stuff in Saintes, France (near bordeux, saintes was the capital of the region in roman times), the local amphitheatre is great also the arc of germanicus, plus some great churches like abbaye aux dammes, the local cathedral, etc...

We were just in Trier a few weeks ago and visited all the Roman places there.

That's a sumptuous selection of Roman constructions. It seems unfathomable that a society so rich could disappear and leave behind one relegated basic housing scavenged from the past relics. A sobering reminder that progress is not guaranteed.

no Hadrian's Mausoleum, Castel st Angelo?

I can't believe you left out the Diocleatian palace in Split, Croatia. It's not only huge, and well preserved, but it also shows how after the fall of Rome people started building houses inside of it. Forgetting its original use and simply expanding the city center of Split into the palace. Says a lot about how people viewed these old roman artefacts left behind.

Non sapevo di queste bellissime ed intatte vestigia lasciate da Diocleziano !!! Bellissime

heilbrun timeline of art history. quote-- Glass windowpanes were first made in the early imperial period, and used most prominently in the public baths to prevent drafts. Because window glass in Rome was intended to provide insulation and security, rather than illumination or as a way of viewing the world outside, little, if any, attention was paid to making it perfectly transparent or of even thickness. Window glass could be either cast or blown. Cast panes were poured and rolled over flat, usually wooden molds laden with a layer of sand, and then ground or polished on one side. Blown panes were created by cutting and flattening a long cylinder of blown glass. looking at reconstructs of roman buildings,I suspected they knew how to process glass and roll the polish it for installation,,not widesoread but it was there

Many original features of the Pantheon (which I visited in one of my most memorable afternoon escapade in Rome) don't exist anymore in their original place and shape but can be seen elsewhere in Rome. For instance, its massive bronze doors were removed, melted and reshaped as the spiral columns encircling the altar in the center of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City in the Renaissance. The popes didn't feel any remorse at disfiguring what they only saw as a pagan temple, back then...

I know of a Roman bridge over a river in the town of Vaison-la-Romaine in the south of France. This is not one of the major Roman monuments still standing, but I am amazed that it's been constantly used and still in use nowadays. I believe it's been restored and consolidated over time, but the fact is that its basic, original structure was so well designed that it's strong enough for having modern cars drive on it, almost 2000 years after its construction. Think of all the different people who've been using this bridge for close to two milleniums, from the days of the Roman Empire until today. Are we still able to build such lasting constructions?