Nero’s Golden House (BBC Two 2001 UK)(ENG/SUB ENG)

Nero’s Golden House Networks: BBC Timewatch, BBC Two (UK) Release Date: 2001 (United Kingdom) 47 min | History Documentary | TV Movie (2001) (ENG/SUB ENG) About: Rome had burnt to a cinder but the 26-year-old Emperor Nero turned his tragedy into a triumph by ordering the construction of the grandest, most ostentatious building on earth - the Domus Aurea or Golden House. From the ashes of central Rome rose a vast complex of palaces, pavilions and temples set in 200 acres of parkland. The Golden House was a creation of great beauty but became a place renowned for violence and sexual perversion where the infamous emperor would satisfy his darkest desires. Even the Romans found it too much and so hated was this place that, after Nero’s death, his lake was deliberately paved over to allow the construction of the Coliseum. Nero’s Golden House was an audacious project - unheard of before and unequalled since. Today, a few rooms survive to remindus of its former sinister glory... #BBCTwo #BBCTimewatch History@zdenek1964 #Documentary #NerosGoldenHouse