Baths of Diocletian: Largest Ancient Roman Baths Ever Built
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ย. 2019
- 🏛 ROME REPLAY: Let’s explore the largest Ancient Roman Baths ever built and the church that was constructed by Michelangelo within its walls.
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The walls were covered in marble which was scavenged to build churches.
I would love to visit the baths of Diocletian...A dream trip for me...maybe someday
I think everybody is fascinated that such an incredible advanced civilisation existed 2000 years ago and then just dissolved and their achievements were not surpassed until the British Industrial Revolution .
Though the Chinese* were at it already when the Romans decided to have a go. Whether Roman civilisation dissolved is a moot point, notice how easily the Roman Catholic church fits into the Baths and indeed into the polytheistic Roman religion, instead of gods of everything, music, the hunt etc. you now get patron saints of the same things - they're the same thing.....
*(and a few others)
Rome never dissolved. The eastern roman empire survived another 1500 years.
@@toddhoward1892 The Western part of the Roman Empire was overun by Germanic tribes and dissolved, Constantinople was not Rome, Rome was Rome, the Roman Empires reign as supreme ruler over Europe had come to and end, and then the East was constantly under siege fighting to survive.
Beautiful imagery and well-paced commentary. Thank you!
Bravo ! We’ve been to Roma 30 times. Want to live there now. Call it home. Eternal Rome. Forza Lazio
11:40 dont forget, none of the brick would have been visible in ancient roman times, it would have all been covered in colorful marble which has been stripped and reused in churches like st peters basilica in the vatican.. Michelangelo's church of St Mary 27:00 in one, yes, just one, of the bath rooms at Diocletian baths gives you a better idea of what it would have felt and looked like in roman times because michelangelo just cleaned it up and added statues and paintings, everything else is pretty much the baths
Wow!!! I didn't know some parts of the inside of the bath is well preserved.
Always wanted to know where the entrance was, cheers
Heat came from furnaces feeding hot air into hypocausts beneath flooring.
Frescoes are paintings.
One can only imagine where the Catholic Church used all the stripped down marble that these baths would have been covered in .
Good video, to show the real Rome, when you're in Rome I recommend the alternative sites, like this, or ostia antica ruins, the palatine Hill, Caracalla baths, or the catacombs, the appian way, the Campo Marzio, the domus aurea, the ara pacis museum, etc etc etc.. rome have a such ammount of prestige monuments and churchs
Wow
So glad you showed the Michelangelo build church! Notice the curved plain cei,ings on the sides compared to the dome. They were designed to be plain by Michela ngelo! There! Also a large cloister area in the back with beautiful gardens and huge white sculpures of animals!
hi. thanks for showing this. while visiting Rome, i didnt viist this bath. i can kick myself. i gave you the thumbs up since many of those shots are fantastic. pls film this once again, this time the builidings and decortions, placing your own face and body at the corner of the frames instead of the center, blocking what you are trying to show!. otherwise, this is pretty cool. thanks
My guess for the high ceiling height is to allow for all of the steam to rise and completely evaporate. If the ceiling is too low then all the steam would build up on the underside of the ceiling, and the build up in condensation would lead to cold water dripping to the bottom. It is a similar philosophy to Japanese bath houses.
I guess so, could be also for sheer grandiosity, since it's a public bath/pool complex that was a statement of an Emperor for the public to be in. The baths were as popular as the forum, people socialized there often and in mass.
The curved part in the background was the exedra of the bath complex
I recognize your voice from tiktok!
Awesome! Thanks for watching!!
Three coins in the fountain with dreamy Louis Jourdan
Correction, the infant mortality rate in ancient Rome was high, not low....but I think you understood what you should have said even though the wrong word came out of your mouth. Ancient Romans also had other diseases, insect borne malaria, and other things which culled more of the population. But generally, if the citizen had a good life and wasn't gluttonous, they were healthy and routinely lived until they were 70+ yo. Just as you see today. Also, childhood diseases were not the only danger to new borns, if the child wasn't wanted, it was discarded, left to be raised by wolves. Children were not really considered to be human until certain rites and rituals were performed, so it was ok to abandon or kill very young children.
Stop talking in Spanish, you're in Italy!