5 Incredibly Well Preserved Roman Buildings
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- When you think of Roman Architecture, what comes in to your mind may well be images of overgrown, crumbling ruins. But despite being nearly 2000 years old, there are actually quite a few examples of Roman buildings remaining more or less unchanged to this day. In this video, I'll be showing off five of them!
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The Roman Architecture was so good that later civilizations mostly kept copying from them instead of developing their own. We still see their print to this day
And the Romans copied and were influenced by Greek culture Religion and architecture
バスキアス obviously that why it is called “Greco Roman” magna Grecia , the Greek colony in southern Italy. Also you fail to mention (as does everyone else) the Etruscans of Tuscany who the romans actually took more from architecturally and engineering-wise than the Greeks , but obviously the romans made it better, and they had many of their OWN inventions. Thank you have a good day
@@claudiamarianidamato9499 oh yeah thanks for reminding me about the Etruscans completely forgot about them
@@eons8941 The Romans perfected everything before to improve on it and leave their mark on the world. Rome, in present day Italy, is the site of the first modern day empire in the Western World. All Hail Italia!
@@claudiamarianidamato9499 you do know that the etruscans borrowed heavily from the greeks as well right?
One good thing about classical structures is it never gets old.
Never gets old because the unimaginative have forever copied. it never got the change to 'get old'.
@@johnmercer7421 It never gets old because it's both a very imposing and yet very artistic and eye-pleasing building style. In comparison modern architecture is usually so ugly you just instantly hate the buildings from day 1 after completion. glass towers and concrete cubes, how exciting
@@wardeni4806 The Romans would like it.
@@johnmercer7421 completely wrong here. new classical buildings can always be imagined in new ways. like any writer using an old language to write a new story.
Classical architecture is based not only off tradition, but aesthetic beauty. Beauty is timeless, never gets old. why throw out thousands of years of architectural refinement to go on a ego trip designing ugly modern architecture?
Looking at them never gets old too.
I would like to go back in time and see how great the Roman Empire was... Truly mind-blowing...
Christian Jiang its all over the world! Before it was called DC...it was called Rome! It has 7 hills like Rome! Other countries have cities or places that were once called Rome, as well...and they ALL have the Greco-Roman buildings! In PA...you’re not allowed in some...public access is not allowed...yet the lights can be seen on late at night! It might be a masonic lodge...but I’m not sure! And some surely have some sort of technology on top of the buildings no one seems to understand! Free energy, maybe?
John Toas shouldn’t of gone to war with Rome than lmao
@John Toas slavery was really common all over the world in the past, not only during the Roman empire.
John Toas you could say that about literally any nation, country or empire in history
@@cynthiaennis3107 what are trying to say?
Most people think of Rome just as an Empire, but before the 500 years of being an Empire, Rome was a Republic for 450 years, and before the Republic it was a Kingdom for 250 years.
Yep. Incredible longevity.
And eastern empire lived another 1000 years
The kingdom was meaningless, truly. A city at best. The Republic was Eines golden days.
oui enfin, le kingdom est un peu mythologique, car on en sait pas grand chose!
And before that it was a village.
In the early 1980's I met a very elegant Italian man on a flight from Rio to NY, and he said something I will never forget. He mentioned he often heard allusions as to how "decadent Italy is", and his answer was -"you are right, Italy is decadent, and has been for two thousand years. But, could your country afford being decadent for two thousand years and be as great as Italy is today"?
There are more things worth seeing in Italy, art and architecturally, than in the next 5 or 6 countries combined. And i'm not italian
@@lray1948 actually Italy owns over 30% of the artistical heritage in the whole world
Fuck Italy
@@justasingledoor5178 change drug dealer
@@justasingledoor5178 you are an angry little bitch, aren't you?
I would certainly add Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii - probably the best preserved Roman building all with interiors, original roof and even some fragments of furniture.
... few know the city of "Ostia Antica" , perhaps better preserved than Pompei or Ercolano. Ciao
@@MrTinner66
Ostia Antica is not really better preserved than Pompei or Ercolano. But it is a completely different type of a city than those two.
@@vaevictis3612 - I referred to a documentary that said it was better preserved than Pompeii, I may have heard wrong, or the speaker may have been mistaken ... As for the fact that it is a different city, I don't know how it is, Ostia is the ancient port of Rome, with homes, offices, shops, etc. it was also an important and "large city" . Bye
@@MrTinner66
Well, it is a city from late Imperial era (Pompeii and Herculanum were pretty much the same as they looked like in late Republican era). Also, while Pompeii and Herculanum were low-density resort towns, Ostia Antica was a worker's town with apartment buildings (insulas), much like Rome on a smaller scale.
@@vaevictis3612 - I agree on the difference between the different functions of the cities, mine was more related to the conservation, to the places, mosaics, buildings, to the daily life that despite the weather can still be found. Thanks bye
Time stamps:
0:35 I. The Maison Carree (Nimes, France)
1:30 II. Tower of Hercules (La Coruña, Spain)
2:26 III. The Curia Julia (Rome, Italy)
4:01 IV. The Temple of Augustus (Pula, Croatia)
5:30 V. The Pantheon (Rome, Italy)
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
La Coruña, spanish
A Coruña, galician
merci beacoup
Thank you very much 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Omg roman and greek ancient buildings are art in its purest form. so delightful to admire what human have achived. These People were so smart and so full of passion.
I’m sure they looked even better back then, they would be very colorful.
The Greek fathers opened a road, the Romans completed it, with the collaboration of the Etruscans
@@admiralackbar3615 The Parthenon marbles were originally painted. Imagine the scenes from Greek victories displayed around the temple! Shame the building was badly damaged while being used as gunpowder storage, and shame the British stole the marbles and bleached them, etching off detail, to present a sterilised and fake version to the British public.
I think its safe to say that Roman architecture is the best, Its very beautiful and long lasting.
It's just a copy of the greek architecture
The ancient Indian architecture is not only best but it's great in the whole world.you know about kailas tempal belongs to great lord shiva in elora, the caves of a ajintha,ancient vijay nagar city in Karnataka is a great city in the world of that time.you also know about the one of the great ancient 3,000 bc years Mohenjo-Daro and sindhu civilization in India. so the great architecture and civilization in India.we didn't campair india with any other civilization because Indian culture great in the world. Indian peoples defect the Alexander the great.
As long lasting as... *PEE WEE HERMAN*???? Nope, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" will outlast the pyramids, and here's proof: ua-cam.com/video/xO7O6zwFZ1k/v-deo.html
I wouldn't say its long lasting as all of these were rebuilt versions of the original ones at some point lol
@@pratikpatil4209 Indian architecture is limited to india only.
Almost all important buildings in USA,europe and south america as a whole uses greco-roman architecture.
From universities to government buildings to monuments, there are more greco-roman style buildings outside europe than all of indian architecture in all of india.
There is a reason for this, between all of architecture styles that exists, the greco-roman was the first to emphasize geometrical perfection and harmony. All buildings that came later were inspired from this.
Indian architecture is unique but its not like the european ones, there is a reason why europe has 20+ schools of art from classical to baroque to neoclassical to modernist.
How many schools of art does india have?
You may argue that europe's influence is due to colonialism, but india was colonized by britain but there are very few roman style buildings in india, and North korea was never colonized by europeans settlers but the most important monument of north korea is a greco-roman style triumphal arch
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Triumph_(Pyongyang)
I love Roman architecture
And that's why everything is copied by the roman
I’m from Rome but I have to admit that Roman architecture was inspired by Greek one
Giovanni L i am from Athens and I agree with that but at the same time I respect Romans and their achievements.
@@giovannil8244 A lot but, I didn't see that many Domes, arches or vaulted ceilings in Athens
@@marcossperezzy6281 rome did a better job at buildings tbh.
I believe the Pantheon is the most beautiful building that mankind has ever built. Amazing that it has lasted this long.
Taj Mahal...
@@philipcallicoat9947 that is also roman architechture. islamic architechture is roman
William Leary The Great Pyramid of Giza
Either Taj Mahal or Parthenon or Chartres cathedral
@@lray1948 All of them are derived from Roman architechture
The pantheon 🏛 is something really to behold
It's an RC church still in use for worship.
@@EllieMaes-Grandad But really? A church.
@@glacierlegion9439 It is indeed; please be respectful when inside. It's quite beautiful.
The Segovia’s aqueduct is another impressive construction that remains intact. And should be in this list certainly!
Indeed, it should. I was awestruck when I saw it.
Forever in awe at the Roman civilization...
Here’s a knock-out way to keep your food from spoiling:
Turn it into a church
Except if you are in France during the revolution
@@bolykbron To prevent that from happening
Don’t help america
Where the lighthouse is built the legend said Hercules defeated a giant with two heads.
Geryon
It's a true story
This is the first time I’ve heard about the lighthouse. Wow, and still used.
@@I_worship_AxxL
No it isnt ,hercules himself is a fiction character
@@messianic_scam Maybe! .....
The Pantheon and The Roman Forum are two of my favorite places in Rome tbh. The Pantheon is especially awe inspiring when you're inside of it, but heading out to the Roman Forum and walking the same paths Roman people did over two millennia ago is always something special to me. If you go early enough outside of tourist season, there will be hardly any people there. It's like stepping a bit back in time. First time I went to Rome I think I went to the forum every single day tbh.
I've been at the Forum Romanum just 10 days ago. You still see the tracks of the carriages carved into the streets, temple of Romulus still has it's original front doors made 2000 years ago - same as the one in the pantheon. Today, our highways barely last 10 years, but take 20 years to (re)build. #GermanBuildingSites
Just wait.
This stuff will go the way of Notre Dame in paris soon.
Burned down in the name diversity.
With mosques built in their places.
No need to argue, these are simple Elementary School mathematics involving fertility rates over the course of a given time.
The only thing you can do to stop it is to close the borders and start Mass deportations.
Tens of thousands of cars a day do cause a bit more damage than dozens of carriages a day
@@Itza-Me idk man rubber is a lot softer than metal
@@srgvette28 real
Research how the those ruts in the road you saw influenced the gauge of railroad tracks and in turn dictated the size of spacecraft.
I saw the picture and I clicked. So beautiful. The empire may be gone, but it’s glory and art is immortal.
The Maison Carree has such a magical quality about it, I can only imagine what it must be like to see in person. It also blows my mind that thousands of towns and cities across Europe would’ve had many buildings of similar quality, form, and scale. We’ll never understand what it would’ve been like to experience this architecture in its time, and perhaps that is the most compelling thing about it.
La maison carrée 🙂 not The
@@bestaghenbertkeushtad7201 haha, thank you for the correction, my apologies!
@@10whiten99 no apologies needed you're very welcome.
My grandmother was from Nîmes and I agree with you La Maison Carrée have something magical.
I live 200 meters from a Roman wall and some remains of an antic arena. That something absolutly normal here in France. Every city had been built over roman foundations.
In France there are couple more from the first century AD:
- Vienne (Isère) has similarly preserved template of Augustus and Livie with guided tours available. Vienne also has an amphitheater for several thousand people, which is still used during a jazz festival every summer.
- Orange has even bigger, 10 thousand people sitting Roman theater from the same period. It also hosts a festival every summer
I was shocked when I saw The Maison Carree when I visited France. I didn't realize this building existed, and I was just wandering around the city and enjoying the sites when I saw this beauty.
What modern buildings will be around in 2000 years time?
True the Romans. We're beyond their time
Too many, I'm afraid.
The problem with modern building is they are supposed to be as cheap as possible.
A i We don’t have the same relationship with buildings then people back 2000 years ago.
There was a time we’re the only way to show the strength, wealth and unity of a civilization was through architecture. Monumental building and arches would be built to represent the strength of the elite and the unite the masses under the realm.
Today we have nationalism, media, institutional infrastructure, etc. Thus, buildings are seen more for their utility (aka, house people, workers or goods) and less for their signification.
Matthew Hemmings. The Roman Empire was an empire and it did what empires do. , campaigns, expansionism. And all this was visible through civic buildings, etc. But there's a dark side to the story. The ordinary people were very 'ordinary' and had to be kept in check. Slaves were everywhere. The rules and the ruled had a totally different mindset to our own. And the ordinary people were kept at bay by offering them 'bread and circuses'(panem et circenses). These events were very popular and necessary. Every big town in Italy and elsewhere had its colosseo. People then, as now, had their identity boosted by the power of their rulers. No doubt there were dissidents(as now)among the have-nots but I do not think they had much incentive to raise their voices. Democracy of course has its roots in Greece>Rome. As a new concept then, who knows how or whether it worked. maybe today's idea of a Democracy has been diluted somewhat. Being a new way of thinking, the humanities were the preserve of intellectuals who wrote poems, and plays still performed and studied today. And philosophers too. Not many of these sitting in parliaments these days.
Please note, that Torre de Hercules is actually IN Coruña, not in Finisterre cape (end of land). Three other honorable mentions in Spain would be the Roman Wall in Lugo; Segovia's Aqueduct; and Merida's Theater. May not fall in the "building" category, but still impressive!!!
A roman friend took me on a tour downtown and showed me neighborhoods that were built over 2000 years ago and still in use. Early the next morning I walked through again alone and a man, facing the sun was shaving in the window of his ancient apartment. Add another day.
The Pantheon is utter perfection!
You forgot Diocletian's Mausoleum and Jupiter's Temple in Diocletian's palace in Split, Croatia.
I thought for sure that would be one of the five.
Well Gorbodoc, you have an opportunity to expand on the topic...
Even the entrance hall too Diocletian's palace is acoustically interesting. I love the old city of Split.
They even reused the aquaeduct to the palace into the 20th century under Austrian-Hungarian occupation. So that aquaeduct is really well preserved...
The temple of Jupiter is rather small and, sadly, has lost its portico. I stayed in a small hotel right next door to it a few years ago. The old town of Split (Dioclecian's Palace) is a remarkable survivor.
@@davidradtke5166 It's hard to call something Austria-Hungarian occupation, given that Croatia was under hungarian crown for almost a millennia
To this list, you could add Portchester Castle, or to give the Roman name, Portus Adurni.
Unlike the other Forts of the Saxon Shore, it remained in use until 1815 at which time it housed French prisoners of war. The exterior is little changed, standing to its full height and; apart from the little matter of a Norman royal palace tucked in the north west corner, it's builders would recognise it today.
Ross Venner Thanks for that, Ross. Fascinating.
You beat me to that.
Portchester Castle is rather a medieval fortress that grew inside the ruins of Roman walls...
I'll nominate the mausoleum and arch just outside St Remy in Southern France, which are astonishingly well preserved. I biked out from the town and was alone with them in the dusk, absolutely magical.
Incredible over 2000 years old and still stand in perfect condition.
I would include the triumph arches of Titus, Septimius Severus and Constantine in Rome. Also the Romulus Temple, in Roman Forum and theTemple of Portunus or Temple of Fortuna Virilis ,also in Rome. Finally the Ara Pacis , an altar dedicated to Pax Romana ( Emperor Augustus ) near the Tiber river.
The Pantheon is pretty cool. I remember my visit there very fondly.
the Roman walls of Lugo, which surround the old town and through which a path runs over ellss to walk.
Galicia. Spain.
They are not buildings, they are structures.
@@Hektols building towers, biilding gates.😉🤔
Long live the Romans, the builders of civilization and builders of empire.
Builders of western civilization, and they were imperialists(fancy word for bullies) who conquered others
@DOUG HEINS Yeah and quite a few villagers had been forced at gunpoint(or sword point in this case) to either suddenly begin paying taxes/bowing to rome or get slaughtered/made into slaves; The jews being a classic example along with many italian tribes.
@@Takeru9292 "They were imperialists" yeah you don't have to say that out loud, it's kind of evident in the name "Roman EMPIRE" mate. And most of the time Romans didn't violently or even oppressively conquer peoples. Rather once they got hold of a territory, their preferred method was to then settle the newly gained area with Italians in order to create a degree of cultural integration and unity within the empire in just a couple generations. That's exactly why France, Spain, Portugal and Romania for example speak latin-based languages and are still somewhat similar in terms of culture. The Romans did violently put down riots and long-standing enemies, but most of the time they simply wanted to integrate all of the conquered peoples into their own society and culture. And they were really good at it too.
@@wardeni4806 I agree.
@DOUG HEINS I guess the Jews and Jerusalem isnt included in that list then lol
I've seen the Pantheon, and the exterior of the Curia Julia (my visit to Rome was too short), and the Maison Carree is on my bucket list. I'm adding the Tower of Hercules. Good video.
You can add the aqueduct of Segovia (near Madrid, Spain). Impressive , complete and untouched for almost 2000 years.
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Don't forget to visit Pompeii and Ercolano, there you will see entire cities preserved
I have seen the Pantheon, Roman Forum and the Coliseum.
Nimes is heaving with Roman antiquities, the whole area is... I spent a lot of time in Nimes and marvelled at the monumental works there... And Rome.... I need to spend another lifetime there...
Me too. I lived there for a bit. The colosseum and aquaduct are world treasures. I don't think many people realize just how Roman that part of France was. The colosseum at Arles is impressive too.
@@zatoichi1 Now I'm all ready to pack my bag and go up to Uzes...!
Ah slavery, so romantic..... Just like all of the "culture" in Europe.... All built by serfs/slaves by kings and other dictators. So romantic and height of "culture"
@@w8stral What have you built?
@@Shcreamingreen Do you enjoy looking pathetic to everyone by opening your mouth and proving you are an idiot who cannot form an argument?
Fun fact about the Pantheon. The concrete technology done by the Romans is actually in some ways superior to what we tend to do.
We are usually lazy and mix our concrete uniformly. It's easier to have some thick slabs than making them slim. If we have to put effort into something, we do so with the reinforcement bars, which can be prestressed if prefabricated. Over time, cracks appear in the concrete (especially on the tensioned side), and when those cracks reach the steel reinforcements, it's basically game over. Plus the steel and concrete deal differently with shifts in temperature. So yeah.
The Pantheon on the other hand has no metal reinforcements, but they put various layers of concrete on top of each other. So a layer of lightweight concrete shields the actually strong, loadbearing concrete from the weather, which is why it is lasting so long.
The pantheon is beautiful, and gives you a lovely sense of return to the Roman Times
On a much more basic level in Italy you can find Roman stuff everywhere. The town of Ivrea has a Roman bridge crossing the Dora Baltea river. Go into the mountains nearby and you can find a Roman acqueduct
A Roman water line that runs underground from the Eiffel mountains to the city of Cologne for about 100 Km. in Germany was used as an air raid shelter in WWII. Most people do not know Cologne was an important Roman city. It was called Colonia Agrippina by the Romans.
I had the good fortune to visit the Pantheon on a day in the 1990s when there were almost no other tourists.
Another truly magnificent building that I would have included in this list is the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
Spain has lots of Roman ruins. Whats cool about them is there isnt the crowds like the ones in italy. Usually you can still walk and touch them. In fact several of the bridges from spain to Portugal are still old Roman bridges. Extremadra (the Providence bordering Portugal) is loaded with ruins. Marida is really cool. At first I took pictures of every little bridge, but after a day, I realized they were everywhere. On the border just above Portugal in the north going toward Galicia, I bathed in an old Roman bath built on a hot spring. How cool is that. There were several just above that national park on the northen border.. If your in Barcelona take the train to tarragona. Its like an 2 hours. There is a theater and several other Roman ruins there if you dont have time to go to western spain.
Theodore Smith Great post. Thanks Theodore. What a wonderful experience.
You make me want to walk in your footsteps.
@@wholeNwon I wear walmart cloths but ive seen the world!
Thats my saying. I had to give up a lot of spending on things to do it but it is so worth it to me.
@@theodoresmith5272 First, there's nothing wrong with clothing sold by the largest vendor in the world. Second, good for you!
Incidentally, my cousin was a buyer for a very high-end clothing store. They paid pennies on the dollar for the things they sold to foolish people for huge amounts of money.
@@wholeNwon really II just came down to stopping my spending on many things. Mostly going out drinking and eating. Im a DWM living in the 2nd highest cost of living in the country and every time I went out, about 3-4 times a week before I made my choice to save my money to travel, it was costing me about $50-100 each night. The first year I had a jar to put the money in. I went to belize and Guatemala for 2 weeks. (Tikal mayan ruins and antigua are amazing). Then went to europe for 28 days. I go in September cause its cheaper and stay in cheaper hoels flew to Turkey then spain. I rented a car and drove up the Pyrenees on both the French and Spanish sides. Then drove to mount blanc in the French Alps and did the Swiss and Italian Alps in the area as well. Drove back to Spain, rested a few days at he royal abby of poblet. (So beautiful) then went on to the cities along the Mediterranean almost to Gibraltar..the next year I went to Ecuador for 2 weeks then back to Europe to Spain. $450 cause they started a flight from lauderdale to Barcelona. flew to germany from barcelona(super cheap to fly in europe) trained to czech, Austria rented a car in vienna to see the countryside and the dolimite in italy. Love Austria Prague and vienna. Then back to Spain and Portugal on a 36 day trip. The next year I went back to spain, portugal and Morocco for 38 days. Then this year I went to Peru(loved it machu picchu is so amazing) Bolivia, Chile, aregintina, uraguay, paraguay, and Brazil (foz do iguaca, 1 of the biggest and most beautiful waterfalls in the world) on a 54 day trip. Peru was the best with machu picchu colca canyon, nazca lines, islands with penguins, lake titicaca, arequipa, cusco, Trujillo, lima, and huaraz( national park of huscarian). Many night buses and flights. South americans are so friendly. Just be careful in the jungle that were it is sketchy.
All in all, it was the time of my life.
Strangely overlooked, Dioclecian's Palace in Split and the Arena in Pula as well, both very well preserved.
We visited The Pantheon last may...it is just amazing.
You forgot the aqueduct in Segovia
And the Pont du Gard (aqueduct over Gard river in France)
Paul Chedzey the title is “Intact Roman Buildings.” By definition, a building is “a structure with walls, floor, and roof...” do the aqueducts fit this definition? The ones I have visited do not. They are therefore structures, not buildings.
Thank you from Segovia
@@michaelbrennan6123 True. Since it looks like the commenters aren't reading the title, I shall be ignorant and make my suggestion as well: The video doesn't include the Empire State building or the large swimming pool in my neighbor's backyard.
@@gabrieldiezdiez8650 Love Segovia, not just the Aqueduct but the Cathedral and the whole city.
Imagine...
The Earth is other, in Roma there was order.
Imagine the beauty of the world
2000 years ago...
@Finn MickCool You can find all of this nowadays, after 1500 years
I come back and watch this again and again. It never gets old and I learn something new every time. Thank you!
I think your videos are really good and that you deserve much more attention. Keep up the good work
Thank you! That's great to hear :)
Seeing ancient Roman/Greek architecture in it’s prime would be an awing experience
Fascinating and thanks to all who've offered other subjects I can look up. I love this stuff. ✌️
Thank you for a very informative and well made video, K&T.
The Basilica of Constantine in Trier, NW Germany, is another impressive, still standing Roman building.
By the way, the Pantheon dome is constructed of unreinforced (not unenforced) concrete -- sorry to be "picky" 😉.
Brilliant stuff! I would love to see a video of how the respective domes of Pantheon and Agia Sophia compare to one another.
The curved ceiling inside the Pantheon is a remarkable piece of architecture, even more remarkable, being over 2000yrs old.
Got to take your hats off to both the Greeks and the Romans, they knew how to construct buildings to last.
I was at first disappointed walking into the Pantheon but then it suddenly struck me hold old it was, and how the space was like nothing I had ever experienced. I later learned about the 28 dome coffers and 28 being a "perfect number" of summed factors (1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14) = 28. Perfect numbers were considered mystical and somehow connected to the cosmos by the Pythagoreans.
You should include to this list the roman temple in Baalbek , Lebanon as it still in a wonderful shape
finally a good youtube recommendation.
Temple of Augustus in Vienne, France is well preserved.
All what you see on the Tower of Hercules is a "new" facade. (Rebuilt 2 times). But the original Roman lighthouse is still standing on the inside, only visible if you visit the place.
imo no Empire will ever truly rival Rome in greatness. Without it Europe would never have been what it is today.
Fenniks Wrong!
@@newage777777
Right!
Without Rome, Europe would not have been the center of civilization, but instead a savage piece of shit
@@FoxyBoxery I must respectfully disagree. Rome was a savage imperialist state responsible for the murder of tens of millions and the enslavement of hundreds of millions.
There were many other states and cultures in Europe (and Ancient Asia) which were not as totalitarian and violent as the Romans.
Most of them, actually. The historical view of Rome as the good guys and the guiding light of civilization is based on works written by people who had never heard otherwise.
I am minded of the movie 'Gladiator' where the 'German barbarians' were massacred for the criminal offense of defending their land and people... By an Emperor who was soon assassinated and a General who was betrayed, enslaved, and eventually killed in the Roman area.
These were not the good guys.
@@bretthess6376
First of all, hundreds of millions enslavwd by Rome?
The World, during Roman times was 200 - 300 million people and atleast 70% of them were either Romans themselves or Asians. The Roman empire didn't had more than 10 million slaves, and even this number is exaggerated.
Second, I never said that the Romans were angels. I just said that they were the single greatest civilization to ever exist on this planet
Leonardus maximus....all my respect! Grande risposta a uno che valuta l’impero Romano basandosi su di un film👍🏻🇮🇹🇮🇹👍🏻
Great list! Another good addition would be the Roman wall in Lugo, Spain, which is the only complete Roman wall left on Earth. You can walk all the way around it and look down at the old city.
How about Hadrians wall?
I've once visited Roman heritage called Split in Croatia I believe, and it was literally jaw-dropper. What a great dude roman was
Yeah he was quitd the guy
Amazing how they have survived especially things like earthquakes through time.
Statues show that Romans were beautiful.
u forgot the biggest and most known roman building of all the hagia sophia in constantinople today istanbul.
build by emperor justinian in 530 ad
Not roman architecture
@@ghost8596 It was built by byzantines, a name created in west europe to not call people in the east who spoke greek and not latin like the "real" romans but they regarded themselves like romans (the last ones for them and many modern scholars).
Sure today is not more roman (for minarets and much more) but originally Hagia Sophia was a roman architecture.
PS I'm roman (italian) not a Constantinople citizen.
title states "5 Incredibly Well Preserved Roman Buildings".
if the author means pre christian roman buildings he should state so in the title, dont u think ?
hagia sophia is the best preserved and most known roman building of all.
@@ghost8596 Yes, it is a Roman building, as the citizens of Constantinople were Romans.
lazios Justinian’s native tongue was Latin, not Greek. Greek became the official language around the reign of Heraclius.
I really missed the Segovia aqueduct
Temple of Jupiter in Baalbeck Lebanon should be on this list
Some say that it is pre-romsn.
samer17579 The 'value' of the Parthenon is not only in its perfection but also in the fact that it is still intact. The same can not be said of Baalbek.
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Baalbek. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek Built in the middle years of the first century and completed around 60AD according to Wikipedia.
S.Richani 100% pre-Roman
@@hamrunizspar1 FIRSTLY IT IS THE PANTHEON NOT THE PARTHENON. I did not say the pantheon should not be on the list and clearly you have never visited both sites (proof of your google search says little in your favour). To think of the pantheon as "intact" is to negate its history as a church in which all of the roman "pagan filth" was removed along with numerous decorative elements (some are in the British Museum even today). It has faced renovations and restorations in both the medieval period and the renaissance. All the marble inlays have had extensive renovation and the portico and exterior were changed multiple times too. In fact in the early 18th century it had two bell towers added to the exterior. It's "intact" nature is attributed only to its use as a church (most of these buildings in the video are) and actively represents the erasure of roman pagan tradition by catholic Rome. Its presence and appreciation today as a roman building was only possible through this history so to say that the pantheon is 100% roman is also false. In fact there's a whole section of wikipedia about the catholic additions to the building, which I recommend you all educate yourself on. Thank you
@@newage777777 to argue that a site is pre or post roman is of little value due to the continuity of cultures on the mediterranen. The romans did not develop an aesthetic in vacuum and if you know anything about the orders of column styles in architecture you will know that the roman style is derived from the constructions of Ionia/Anatolia and Greece. The eastern mediterrenean and its contribution to the roman tradition is of critical importance and is a piece of history that western historical revisionist like yourself choose to negate in preference of creating a supposed insulated European narrative that is detached from the "East" you can thank Petrarch in the 14th century for the conception of this division between east and west. The site of Baalbek contains both a temple of Jupiter and a temple of Bacchus both gods in the roman tradition (there is also a temple of Venus). Septimius Servus arguably built the temple of Jupiter as it was on his coins - firmly placing the temple in the chronology of the Roman empire. Some of the largest and most well preserved structures of the roman empire are not even in what is referred to today as Europe. Ephesus in Turkey, Hadrian's arch in Jerash Jordan or the coliseum in El Djem, Tunis. A site having a pre-roman history in addition to a roman history makes the site more impressive not less as it demonstrates more accurately the chronology and sedimentation of cultures over time.
Thank you for this. Reminded me of places I've been so long ago.
That was the level they were at back then.
@Trip Gil no no it wasnt
We could also add Porta Nigra, Trier, Germany and the Palatium there as well.... and of course the river bridge, still in use for car traffic - after almost 2000 years....
Very in depth, I was expecting the typical vapid TOP FIVE ROMAN INTACT BUILDINGS, ignore the voiceover and just check the list of buildings, but I was pleasantly surprised. Excellent job.
The architecture was amazing, but the beauty of the statues fills me with awe.
Excellent and well-founded commentary; may I suggest some more buildings like the aqueducts of Segovia and Tarragona (both Spain), the city gate Porta Nigra (Trier, Germany) and the theaters of Bosra (Syria) and Aspendos (Turkey) as well as the temple of Vienne (France).
I've seen a thousand pictures and documentaries on The Pantheon, and none of them prepared me for how big it was.
The pantheon is an incredible building you don't get the true scale over video you have to see it in person it's condition is incredible also.
The porta nigra would have also fitted nicely in with your choice of buildings.
Jefferson did like Roman architecture. I want to add that outside University of Virginia Library mentioned in this video, he also designed Virginia State Capitol building based on Maison Carree.
In South America we have Roman architecture in some areas of our countries. We have a lot of the Baroque style in our cities. However, unfortunately, we also have a "futuristic" architecture which is not futuristic and it lacks details, it's gray and cubic... I prefer the Roman and Baroque architecture, but, despite living in a Romance country, I appreciate gothic one as well. Greetings from Brazil!
Sad. After WWII, architects seem to have forgotten about beautiful things, like domes.
« Gothic » architecture is actually an evolution from the romanic style. It comes from France, a country of latin culture. Contrary to what the name (which had been given in a depreciative way later), gothic has nothing to see with germanic Countries. After France, the country with the most of gothic architecture is Spain...
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Nice information. I thought it was related to the Visigoths. But is not France influenced by the Germans? And in the North of Iberia there were barbaric settlements. But, thank you for everything.
@@megapeiron No, its the opposite. First Gothic Catedral is Saint Denis in Paris in 1140 BC. Without boring you with a long story. Gothic is a style that evolved from Romanic by replacing the massive supporting walls of the vaults with pillars. This was possible because the pointed arch was imported by the Sassanids through the Arabs, but the real reason was the use of Arabic numerals. Roman numerals were used before, have you ever tried to perform a math operation with Roman numerals and without the zero?
Complex architectural structures are dimensioned with mathematics. Without mathematics you have to build everything more massive
There was a intact Roman temple in Scotland till the 18thc when it was torn down for stone..
For. Goodness sake shows the interior of the structures for us to feast our eyes upon them.
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omi god The function of the Parthenon did become christianized but I don't think the structure where it matters most was altered in any way.
Go to Italy. It's worth it.
I think this has more to do with which interiors are easy to find as royalty-free copyright-noninfringing images. The Pantheon, which we were shown the interior of, is presumably visited by lots of tourists and freely photographed. Meanwhile, many museums (presumably including those of these buildings converted into museums) have restrictions on photography / sharing the photos you can take. And a lighthouse that's still in use is most likely closed to tourists altogether - you don't want curious laymen traipsing around such a strategic technical structure.
Tourists will go and see anything and have no choice if on guided-tours. Many tourists are discerning and will have done their homework before visiting and even later. Others follow like sheep. To them buildings like the Pantheon because they're told it's old and still intact. Anything less than intact is just a pile of rubble. No background information and even less, imagination. In UK places like the British Museum /National Gallery charge no entrance fee. They are a lifeline to the truly interested. While others go in 'to shelter from the rain'. I have suggested a visit to the BM to some and all i get is 'but I've been there before!'.
A perennial argument is the e return of exhibits to their country of origin. To some the Rosetta Stone should be returned to the village in some country where it was found. Few people would care to visit and more than likely, the locals would tether their animals to it and treat it like just another largish stone. In the BM millions see it and study it. The same could be said of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon. London draws visitors much more than Athens ever could. Besides, I doubt the Marbles would have survived had they never left the Parthenon. Of course there is the argument for rightful ownership but other practical points of view come into play.
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Fantastic documentary.
THE GREATNESS OF ROME!
Just video!!! Thank you!! I love Roman Buildings!! Thanks again!!
It always amazed me how advanced the roman civilization is, considering how backward the rest of the world outside eurasia are at that time...
Inside Eurasia as well...
Hard Boiled Europe outside the roman empire was totally backwards too at that time.
I suppose you have little understanding of Indian and Chinese civilisations. Look up the Indus Valley civilisation.
Debasmita Biswas indian and chinese civilisations are outside Eurasia for you ?
By the way, the Roman empire was not Eurasian but also North African.
lol. India was way more advanced in every aspect.
The Romans built things to last. Thanks for the great vid.
When I see the crowds shown in the Pantheon these days (Photographs), I feel lucky to have been there in July 1974. No crowds; few people, and finding the building was likened to traveling into a less touristy unknown area of town.
rome has always been one of the most visited cities in the world, even in the 70s there were a lot of people. maybe not the same crowds you see now but the world population is also nearly double what it was then
@@Nathan-gs5tw In 1980 during my first visit to Rome with the school I saw a lot less people in all the main monuments (Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, Vatican Museums). Nothing comparable to the mass of people today that makes visiting in certain areas a problem.
What amazes me is that, in times where most people didn't even had indoors sanitary facilities of any kind, back when the world was pretty virgin, suddenly you could find this level of artisanship and craftsmanship. I mean literally many people still were wearing nothing but furs at those times, yet there was a place with this astonishing level of development. Fascinating
The wealthy did. They spun thread and wove fabrics. Lots of statues and paintings of Romans and Greeks wearing beautiful clothing, armor, etc.
When the Romans were building these wonders the Irish were painting themselves purple and running naked into battle.
Gerald O'Hare they were so uncivilized that not even the Romans bothered to conquer them
Ventu my view is that Roman engineering was stunningly advanced compared to contemporaries.
We still do. Go to Temple Bar on a Saturday night!
Gerald O'Hare lmfao omg
Not only the Irish, the Picts and Iceni, the Germans, the Scandinavians too. All the bundle
He has an intoxicating voice - loved the video ❤️❤️
Cant stop to amaze on how ahead of it time was the Roman Empire, got to wait to renaissance, ten ceturies later to see similar buildings, structures, arts, comerce..
Do you know "Dom inSpeyer", Germany, 1025 began to build?
Or Aachen Minster, Germany?Build around 800?
Dark Ages?
And all the gothic Cathedrals all over Europe?
The architects, engineers, and builders knew their job and did it properly.
Trajan's a great font!🤣
Can I just say, how much I appreciate the fade to black at the end. No bullshit, “like and subscribe🤪” ... real classy... just fade to black.
The unsaid thing here is that while age claimed some Roman buildings, the most common fate of Roman art and architecture was deliberate destruction by Christians. Modern day Christians like to romanticise about early Christians as if they were sweet people who were gentle and purely loving. In reality they were all too often zealots, much like the zealots who ran Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with a burning desire to destroy anything made by anyone who did not share their beliefs. Just as Islamic State destroyed ancient Roman and Mesopotamian ruins, and buildings that represented other sects, the early Christians were merciless in destroying all reminders of the Romans. The few buildings that did survive only did so because Christians destroyed all the Roman art inside them then turned them into Christian churches. It was a hideous blot on the history of the world that they could destroy so much that was wonderful, and to think that it was a good thing to do.
Many Europeans during the Middle Ages were Christian. While the destruction of Roman architecture is unfortunate from our perspective centuries in the future, to the perspective of the people in the Middle Ages, it was both cheaper and quicker to re-purpose materials from old Roman buildings. Further, the population of Rome collapsed after the fall of the West. There was no use for, nor capacity for preserving, all those Roman structures. Comparing early Christians to ISIS is disingenuous.
Indiana1616 you are an example of the romanticising of those horrible people. The Christians were not recycling, they were deliberately destroying just like ISIS and the Taliban. Archeology is all too familiar with the fragments of sculptures that were smashed up with hammers. The Dark Ages is called that because Christians closed all the schools, and it was forbidden to be a physician. People were not permitted to be able to read and write unless they were in the priesthood and creating any art or writing any book that was not religious in nature was forbidden. It was thought that if one was sick then the person had sinned and was being punished by god. And the only way to be cured was via prayer.
The Crusades were essentially a series of genocidal missions in which entire cities were slaughtered unless they converted to Christianity. It is estimated that the Crusaders slaughtered around 20 million victims in the Middle East with 60,000 being killed in Antiocha alone, and another 60,000 in Jerusalem. The Christian chronicler said that the soldiers of Jesus wept with joy that they could walk ankle deep in the blood of Jewish and Moslem men women and children and give thanks in what they erroneously believed was the temple of Solomon. The Christian chronicler at Antiocha was called Fulcher. He wrote that the women were “saved” from further harm by the Crusaders running their spears through their bellies. The peasants of Steding in Germany in 1234 were unable to pay their Church taxes and the priest ordered they be slaughtered, including the women and children. Between 5,000 and 11,000 peasants were slaughtered that day. In 782 Charlemagne ordered 4,500 Saxons be put to death for not converting to Christianity. In 1456 80,000 moslems were killed at Belgrade. At Askalon in 1099 200,000 “heathens” were slaughtered in the name of Jesus Christ. Do you want me to go on? The historic record from the Dark Ages in Christian Europe is horrific and most definitely as terrible as the reign of terror perpetrated by ISIS. In fact, based on the numbers of dead, ISIS were small scale compared to the early Christians. Prior to the 20th century the scale of Christian atrocities during that period was suppressed by the Church and even today most Christians believe the myth as portrayed in Hollywood of the Christians being gentle idealists. The historic reality is that just like early Islam, Christianity was spread by the sword and living in Christian Europe was a terrible time.
We only came out of that horror because humanism developed within church philosophy in Italy during the Renaissance, and secularism grew as a concept from a growing body of thinkers outside the Church following the Renaissance.
imagine the guy who designed these being brought here and witness their works being perserved to this day
So sad that the ancient bronzes are missing from the Pantheon because they were melted to build the St. Peter's Baldachin. Quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini.
Agreed. That's the battle cry of religion, though: aedificia mutatur non tollitur, lol.
P.S. someone once called me a fecker-_unt, really a quite nasty person
The end of Edward Gibson's Decline he goes into a moving explanation about the destruction of the old buildings. It is well worth reading.
Epic
From one pagan temple to another!
Not quite. MP. The massive bronze girders (usually unseen) were removed, but not only for the baldachin at St Peter's - only a small portion ended up being suitably reused there. Most of it went to the many other grandiose artistic endeavours of Urban VIII, and not a little in the making of canons(!); that they were not needed as girders .. integrally or artistically .. sort of speaks for itself (unlike the Elgin Marbles, for instance, or even King Tut's funeral gold, or the Napoleonic Commissions).
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The Greek fathers opened a road, the Romans completed it, with the collaboration of the Etruscans
There's a temple of mithrus in London somewhere
It's most likely around leadenhall market, that is the location of the roman forum of london, and the geographic center of the oldest part of London.
I strongly believe that they didn't build those buildings to last... They did it in that way because they were not able to measure their effort and build them to last for one or two centuries. That's the real reason, current technology and knowledge allow us to invest just the necessary effort to build something that will stand for a reasonable amount of time. Apart from that appointment. It's a great video!