7 More Roman Buildings Hidden in Plain Sight
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- This sequel to my video “7 Roman Buildings Hidden in Plain Sight” explores Roman ruins hiding on the grounds of the papal villa, among the catacombs of the Via Appia, and along the busy streets of Rome and Naples. The linked map shows the location of every building mentioned:
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Santa Maria della Rotonda
3:22 Sant'Urbano alla Caffarella
5:27 The Duomo of Terracina
6:55 The Roman Theaters of Naples
8:56 San Paolo Maggiore
10:07 Santa Costanza
12:21 Santa Maria degli Angeli
Thanks for watching!
KUDOS! I'm Italian and a Roman, born and bred... it's the first time I find such an accurate descriptions of those monuments. THANK YOU ❤
You’re very welcome!
Imagine going out for a hike in the woods and coming across an almost intact roman ruin
Welcome to southern europe and france.
And england
@@Neilos-sd6ti can't relate, I live in the americas. Most of the buildings you come across aren't that old.
@@kayharker712 I'm from Montreal and in the 50's (or maybe the 40's) the mayor had two little round Roman temples built in Atwater Square - urinals they were - but in Roman lettering around the domes of each it read VESPANIENNE - after Vespasian, a great builder of public comfort stations I gather.
@@kayharker712 The temples at Stowe are not Roman, though, except in style. They were built in the 18th century.
In the states, something two hundred years old is ancient, but in Rome, two hundred years is new! Amazing architecture!
No, 200 years old buildings aren't considered new, they are considered prestige buildings, considering how architecture went to shit from the 1960's onward.
In Europe, something that is 2000 years old is considered ancient. Something that is 1000 years old is considered old
my hometown of ~3000 people in Finland turned 450 years old a couple of years back...
@@viggo1149 a little older than my town but not much. New York turned 400 years old in 2009 or 2013 depending on which story you go with.
I've never seen anyone claiming something two hundred years old being ancient in the states.
What's your source for this ?
My grandmother is from Formia, just north of Naples, and lived down the street from a Roman amphitheater that was transformed into apartments throughout the centuries; there are also ancient stone walls and arches that she’d hide under with her family during the German and Allied raids during WWII. The apartments are still there and still inhabited, too! It’s called Teatro Romano di Formia a Castellone.
Thank you. I've never visited Formia, but I just did some quick Googling on the theater. Those are some impressive ruins.
Thanks for the info!
@@toldinstone Can you please kindly do a video on the "Temple of Manly Virtue" AKA Portunus (formerly known as Fortuna Virilis)?? This is one that holds many significant secrets. www.atlasobscura.com/places/temple-of-portunus
@@victoriamarie8588 Thank you! I have some good pictures of that temple from my last trip to Rome. I'll put it on the list.
@@toldinstone Thank you Sir! I will def look forward.
The last one is amazing and unbelievably awesome, like the Pantheon. So often we see drawings of ancient Roman buildings, but to see the actual building with almost all its glitter and color and original glamour right in front of out faces, brings home exactly how truly great (even by today's standards) these buildings were and continue to be, thousands of years after their construction. Those monuments of beauty, truly were built for the ages!!
Santa Maria degli Angeli deserves to be as well known as the Pantheon and the Baths of Caracalla.
@@toldinstone Hi Gareth, I'd like to ask how much is from the roman period inside Santa Maria? Is it just the columns or the red marble panels as well?
The last one is simply spectacular.
No other words needed.
It's one of my favorite buildings anywhere
@@toldinstone have archaeologists done any excavation between the modern floor and the roman one? and do you know if it's a hollow space (supported by columns maybe?) or if it's totally filled in?
Always been fascinated by thid building, and eagerly looking forwars to a full tour :)
@@rblossey The Roman floor (which was apparently prone to flooding) was simply covered with dirt. To the best of my knowledge, the floor of the Renaissance church has never been taken up for excavation.
Glad to hear it - I look forward to making that video!
@@toldinstone The original Egyptian granite collumns in the interior still seem to be sitting atop their original column bases, which appears at the modern ground level. How do they work with the original Roman floors of the bath beneath?
@@My-nl6sg Those bases are Renaissance copies. The real bases are on the original floor, two meters or so underground.
Please do a video of the Roman ruins in Trier, Germany. This is where I fell in LOVE with Roman history as a young child. I lived near Trier between the ages of 4 and 8 because my father was US Air Force. We always went there.
I hope to do a video on Trier...stay tuned!
@@toldinstone IWILL!!!!!! I can not wait.
@Frank Thinnes Same with me!!!! My father would tell me stories of the Imperial Roman Armies and the fights and "throwing" Christians to the lions in the Roman amphitheater. I wanted to become an archeologist but I never did. BUT I did study history in college. I focused on early modern English and Colonial USA history, Roman and Greek architecture. I LOVED history so much that I became a history teacher in a Chicago high school. I can remember living in Germany but I was young and I lived there from 1952 to 1956. I also have very fond memories of Germany.
@@jilledmondson6894 Wow you must have a vast knowledge of history, being in Germany just after ww2, studying the birth of the USA, and now ancient Rome and Greece. That's incredible, I hope to gain as much experience and knowledge as you have. I am drawn to both ww2 history and ancient roman/greek/persian stories/ruins as well!
There is lots to explore in Trier (Augusta Treverorum)!
Churches are impressive, e.g. underground tours in St. Maximin, Trier Cathedral. In St. Matthias is the grave of Apostle Matthew.
A guided tour in Germanys oldest wine cellar with wine tasting at "Stiftungsweingut Vereinigte Hospitien" is very interesting and tasty!
Cheers!
12:55 When I saw the grandeur of the baths of Diocletian I had goosebumps ! It would be great to visit them when they were intact.
My jaw dropped when I saw it, if I could go back in time and visit just one place that would be it
I'm roman, and I find your videos very interesting and informative. Grazie but better still: Gratias maximas!
I'm very glad to hear it. Prego, et libenter
My wife and I did a driving tour of the UK a few years back and walked along Hadrian's Wall, a fantastic experience. But a little bonus was waiting for us at the tiny hotel we stayed at, in the countryside outside the nearby town of Carlisle. The owner had marked off an odd little section of hallway near the entrance, with a little iron fence surrounding a hole in the floor, lit by a small spotlight. The owner said it was a well dating back to the Romans and whomever had built the house had built right over it, probably to use it as an "indoor" water source. At some point it was covered over and forgotten, and the most recent owner had discovered it during a renovation and turned it into his own in-house tourist attraction.
There's a complete Saxon church where I live (Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, UK ) that was unknown as such, and was used for various purposes for many hundreds of years. It's origins were only realised in the 20th century. It had been subsumed by additions over the years. It's now returned to pretty much it's original condition. It's very Roman in appearance.
There must be many more bits of architectural history that we pass unknowingly every day.
Thanks.
You're very welcome. History really is hidden everywhere.
Grazie mille. One of my favorite memories of Roma is walking the Appian Way at twilight with all the ghosts. Personal note: Your voice is calming and easy to listen to.
I've always wanted to walk the section beyond the Tomb of Caecilia Metella at dusk. The closest I managed was a long walk in the rain a few years ago.
Glad you enjoyed the narration !
I visited Santa Maria de la Angeli on the one occasion that I visited Rome. As described, from the outside it looks like nothing, a rather insignificant old ruin, walking inside it is magnificent. In one of the photos shown here... my son was marveling at the beautiful bluish/green columns thinking they were actual columns, I said "Brian, that's a painting"...his eyes went wide.
Really this is true and inescapable of all of Italy, the architecture and artwork is simply magnificent.
My family and I recently visited Rome and we spent a few hours one day exploring the Appian Way on rented bikes. It was such a lovely afternoon riding in out in the peaceful countryside visiting the Catacombs di San Sebastiano and many roadside tombs and monuments. Highly recommended!
I love how you often use the etching prints of Giovanni Battista Piranesi for the descriptions of the ancient status of the monuments. I use to collect original Piranesi prints from 1700, he was a genius in graphics and one of the first "modern" archeologist.
I’ve always been a fan of Piranesi’s prints. No artist has better captured the grandeur and mystery of Roman ruins.
When you hear from a PHD there are literally thousands I immediately think there's 10,000+ partially completed buildings being used. Love your work keep it up
These revealing videos are fantastic. It's refreshing to know there is a scholar highlighting these ancient structures nestled within the modern city expanse. More please.
Very glad you enjoyed the videos! I plan to make more.
10:11 thank’s for talking about Santa Costanza, it’s in front of my house and I love to look at it from my window.
There are even some catacombs under the church
You're very welcome
Very neat
Ooooh sppooooooky!
Great video, thanks! It's worth noting that the modern floor level of Santa Maria degli Angeli, which you noted is higher than the ancient level, required that the Egyptian granite columns have artificial bases "collared" around them to make them look like they stop at the modern floor level; but they actually go below it... which explains that visibly disproportionate "fatness" of those columns. Looking forward to your video on that church!
You're very welcome! (And you're right, of course, about those columns.) Hopefully, you won't have to wait long for that full-length video...
@@toldinstone What type of ship was used to transport the Egyptian granite?
@@RinoRemover a big one
I like to see these old drawings from the renaissance period of how the ruins looked like then. Would be cool a video on these drawings
If you haven't seen it, you might be interested in my video on "The 5 Greatest Roman Buildings Demolished during the Renaissance," which uses quite a few old drawings.
@@toldinstone i loved that video
Santa Maria degli Angeli is definitely one of the coolest unappreciated structures in Rome. I was making my way towards the National Museum at the Baths of Diocletian and decided to take a quick detour inside what seemed like a relatively unassuming entrance. Wow, what a spectacular sight to see. I didn't quite realize what I was looking at until I tried to leave out one of the back entrances and saw the massive ruins of the baths were actually part of the same wall to the space I was just inside of. Of course, I had to go back in to take another look at that point. Rome is such a wonderful city with many layers of history.
OMG, I passed the Baths of Diocletian all the time when I was in Rome--they're really closed to the train station and my hotel was near the train station. Damn. I should've gone INSIDE the entrance. I saw the entrance of Santa Maria degli Angeli all the time. I just figured it was some weird, modern church with a modern interior I did not come to Rome to see (i.e. they kept the plain brick interiors for the church, like at the Baths of Caracalla and some such). I was not aware that it still had the interiors of an actual Roman bath. Damn...
Your videos make me want to visit Italy again. I've only been once, about 14 years ago, but those were among the most memorable two weeks of my life. I want to see Rome again, and Venice. I want to go to the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Pompeii. I want to visit Cinque Terre. I've become a fan of the UK's most famous gardener, Monty Don, and he has whole 1-hour videos on the Gardens of Italy. According to his professional experience, the most beautiful garden in the world is in Italy, between Naples and Rome. It's called the garden at Ninfa. I want to see all of these beautiful gardens. You, sir, are biting me with the travel bug again...
Making these videos has me wanting to return myself...
These videos are really interesting. Roman buildings that are still in use are is a fascinating subject, but it's quite hard to search for (if you google you usually just get a bunch of generic lists with same structures such as the Pantheon, tower of hercules, some bridges etc). So it's great that someone like you can shine a light on the more obscure stuff.
Thank you! I try to focus on topics that aren't often covered (especially on TH-cam).
Hi, very interesting videos. I'm originally from South Italy. Two towns you should visit is Capua and Santa Maria Capua Vetere, which are very close to each other and not far from Naples. Full of Roman ruins. Also another city in the area is Caserta, regional capital, which hots the biggest Royal Palace in the world.
Thank you!
Thank you so much, Garrett! These videos are basically like crack to me. Currently writing a book featuring Domitian and so I have taken a few lengthy visits of Rome and environs in the past few years, having had the pleasure of visiting some of the sites.
For those going to Napoli, I highly recommend a tour of the underground (Napoli Sottorenea). At the conclusion of that tour, they take you inside the neighboring above ground buildings that include vestiges of the great theatre featured in this video.
A visit into Santa Maria degli Angeli, within a portion of the Baths of Diocletian was revelatory. You really do get that sense of lost grandeur and there are many extraordinary details worth the visit alone. The coolest thing is a Renaissance era meridian line inlaid in the marble floor. A pin prick hole in the high corner of the church channels a thin shaft of sunlight that crosses the meridian at noon. Noon at the time was not fixed to GMT but to the midpoint of sunrise and sunset. Thus we were able to calculate the midpoint for that particular day and, lo and behold, to the minute, the beam crossed in the appropriate place. Amazing.
You're very welcome! I did one of the tours during my very first visit to Naples, and proceeded to lose all of the pictures I took during a hard drive crash.
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Every time you post one of these vids I just want to pack my suitcase and go. Been to Rome just 3 times, feel like I've barely scratched the surface.
I learn something new about the city every time I make one of these videos.
@@OKuusava Exactly what I said when I was there. Hope to return there soon....
I lived close to Bearsden (near Glasgow Scotland) and used to enjoy walking in Roman Road because I knew it led to the remains of the Antonine Wall.
What I really wanted was to visit Hadrian's Wall in North Tyneside because I saw pictures of it, knew it ran for 80 miles, and it looked beautiful.
Ill be in Rome and Naples in October 2021. Cant wait. Want to try to find some of these. Thanks
You're very welcome!
I love these videos! Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I stumbled on sant'urbano while casually walking inside the Caffarella Park in Rome. It just looked like another church in Rome in a state of decay, with a rusty collapsed fence around it a old steel gate blocked by a tree stump. Understanding it's history really made me look at it in a different way.
My pleasure. Yes, until you see those columns embedded in the façade, it just looks like another medieval building.
The previous video was fascinating and this one continues the same excellent theme
This channel needs to go viral so that you have the funds to visit all these sites and make your fabulous videos I’m sharing this
I couldn't agree more...
Thank you!
Always enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Lovely video and I'm in love with your laid back way of teaching and informing us about history. Never stop making content pleaseeee
A glimpse into a grand world. Nice work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the tour!
Never thought I would be so interested in ancient buildings and civilizations but your videos are all so interesting and wonderful. It’s really mind-boggling how these ancient people could design and construct these magnificent places.
Thank you! It never ceases to amaze me
Thank you for the always informative videos.
Your videos are a nice reprieve from studying for finals, I’m studying nursing but I love ancient civilizations too
Delighted to hear it! Don't let me distract you from your finals, though...
Thanks! Just a slight distraction from anatomy is all I need 😂
Picked these videos out to try to fall asleep to, ended up finding them way too enjoyable to fall asleep to and staying up until 4am watching them. Well done professor!
Thank-you for these videos, having been a visitor to Rome for the past 35years, my favourite Roman building since my very first visit has always been the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e Martiri and I look forward to seeing your video on this when released. Many thanks.
You’re very welcome
Just received your book. Looking forward to reading it.
Thank you for the “Armchair Travelogues of Ancient Rome” so good.
😊
Thanks again for a great tour.
If at all possible, if this topic could be a regular segment, perhaps once a month (or even more frequent 😬) I would have so much to do and see when in Italy next. Thanks for the great information!
You're very welcome!
I do hope to do more of these, though I worry about burning through my stock of "hidden buildings" too quickly.
Looking forward to seeing whatever can be published as well as seeing the in depth item on Santa Maria degli angeli. I’m wondering how the floor today is significantly higher than the original building, while the columns supporting the roof are fully visible. Perhaps they stood on high pedestals originally.
@@rickb3078 The floor was filled in because it was prone to flooding (not surprising, since the level of the surrounding streets had risen considerably). The real column bases are buried; the ones visible now were added during the Renaissance conversion.
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Clear. That makes a lot of sense.
Wonderful video. Your descriptive narrative is first rate. Thank you!
You’re very welcome!
I absolutely love your videos. I’m going to go through your books as I am Sure they are as interesting As your videos are. Great job. Lots of information for people who love the Roman culture. Thank you for what you do. You’re 🤩
Thank you! That's very kind of you to say.
Thanks for sharing all your awesome knowledge with us!!
Great videos.
You’re very welcome!
I am so excited to have found this channel! You are such an incredible teacher:)
I'm very glad to hear it! Thank you
Amazing buildings. Thank you for the video!
These videos are great. You transport us back in time. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
I hope in due course you will be able to add Roman theatres, aqueducts and surviving Roman baths. Thoroughly enjoyed what I have seen so far.
I think you'll enjoy my next video. Stay tuned!
The passion of people to build on that scale. No cost cutting. Everything is about the dollar today. When you walk into one of those Roman buildings and look up, its so humbling. You have to stand in the middle and just look around you --and blow your mind.
Thanks for uploading.
Enjoyed very much.🥀
I'm very glad to hear it
Found your channel about a week ago and haven't stopped watching. Great content, thank you!
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Thank You Dr. Garrett!
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These videos are a treat, thank you so much for making them :)
You're very welcome
Keep up the great work. 🤙🏻
Thank you!
Brilliant video, sir. Many many thanks! 😎👍🏻😎👍🏻
I discovered your channel recently and I’ve just been binge watching all your videos. Absolutely fantastic!!
Thank you!
Wonderful videos !! Ty!🍎
As always, quite excellent!
Santa Maria degli Angelo ….. I Remember this very vividly. Thank you for this amazing program!
I find your videos fascinating, I can’t wait to see more... and to visit Italy again!
Thank you - I can't wait to get back to Italy myself!
Woohoo, another hidden buildings video already! I wish all my wishes came true this quickly.
Well, I do what I can...
while you're on your good luck streak, could you also wish for a full, swift excavation of the Villa Of The Papyri? ;)
@@rblossey tell me moreeeee
This is very high quality content, thanks for making it available.
My pleasure!
Really great work, well done
Thank you
Excellent commentary...per usual. 🌿🏛🌿 just fascinating, the pull of the ancient world is laughing and living right along with us. A true reconstituted Memory
Thank you. I like that..."laughing and living right along with us"
Fantastic... I had no idea so many things remained hidden everywhere... Thank you for these wonderful videos!
You're very welcome!
Another excellent video- thank you!
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Bravo, this was really well done. I love these old building and Rome is a fabulous place.
Very glad you enjoyed the video!
Awesome! Thank you, cant wait for the next one!
You're very welcome!
Great video keep em coming
You got it
Thank you for posting this video very enjoyable I am a big fan
So amazing!
“Hi, I’m the told in stone guy” - best intro thus far, you should keep it
stone cold truth
Told In Stone Guy is his legal name from birth; it's just a coincidence for his occupation.
(joke)
You Garrett Ryan are a rare gem! As is your channel toldinstone. Thank you for this fascinating video. I am subscribed
Thank you, and welcome aboard!
Interesting stuff. Thanks
Interesting as usual. Subscribed.
Great video! I'm very happy I found this. Please keep creating your content, you have a wonderful style.
Thank you! And stay tuned...
THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT .
MUCH APPRECIATED .
STAY WELL
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I can’t wait for you to do an actual virtual tour where you find other hidden gems in Rome! Awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it! I can't wait either.
Not a virtual tour but a real tour that would be really cool
@@adornjewellers I hope to visit Rome this summer and do a few "on location" videos.
Thank you for making these videos, I am really enjoying them. I see absolutely no reason why your channel can't get as big as Mark Felton. He does similarly styled videos on WW2. I have liked, subscribed, and I am really looking forward to future segments. Keep up the great work!
You're very welcome. Thanks for liking and subscribing - and I'll cross my fingers about the channel's future!
Excellent video! I have been to Rome twice. There is so much to see there.
Great job!
Thank you!
I'm so happy you're doing these videos
Very glad you enjoy them!
Thank you for this great tour. When one visits Rome it is so difficult to see it ‘all’. These I missed, so I’m very appreciative of your knowledge and guidance.👍
You're very welcome
New to your channel,love your username. Beautiful work!
Very cool I really enjoy your videos you make me want to go back to Rome just to go to all the places you’ve outlined thank you your channel is fascinating
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Thanks for this!
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I'm glad I came across this .Subscribed and binge watching
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Thanks for your guiding and showing also vVia Appia and Constantins mosaics and ending your tour in ancient Rome with Santa Maria Angelis chathedrale as I remeber having seen.
You're welcome
well done great bit of vlogging from a roman buff great to see new things glad i stumbled across this thanks
Very glad you enjoyed it
I found your channel, within 48 hours I'd watched everything you've made. Fascinating stuff, won't miss a video.
I wish I had more viewers with your dedication. Thank you very much!
I love your videos man thank you
You're very welcome
more! keep these coming!
You got it!
Most informative: grazie!
prego!
Thanks for these videos. Had to watch them again as I plan my week in Rome in May. It will be my third trip to Rome and I want to see some of the less visited sites.
So interesting; thanks for sharing. And thanks for not accompanying your video with music and for not talking non-stop so we can absorb fully all the great information you have included.
You're very welcome
Love your videos!
Glad to hear it!