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After the great fire of 64 AD cleared the centre of Rome, the emperor Nero seized a vast tract of the smouldering city to build himself a pleasure palace of legendary extravagance: the "Golden House". It sprawled across some 80 hectares — landscaped grounds, woods, vineyards and an artificial lake where the Colosseum now stands — with banqueting rooms sheathed in gold and a famous revolving dining hall open to the sky.
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The Baths of Titus were a relatively small imperial bath complex built in great haste and inaugurated in 80 AD — the same year as the Colosseum next door — by the emperor Titus, partly over the buried wing of Nero's hated Golden House. They were among the first of the grand public bathing establishments that would later culminate in the colossal baths of Trajan, Caracalla and Diocletian.
Inaugurated by the emperor Trajan on 22 June 109 AD, the Baths of Trajan were the first of Rome's truly colossal imperial bath complexes — the model for the later baths of Caracalla and Diocletian. Designed by Trajan's great architect Apollodorus of Damascus, they covered some 60,000 square metres on the summit of the Oppian Hill, with symmetrical bathing halls, a vast open palaestra for exercise and a monumental exedra, all enclosed within a porticoed precinct.
The western edge of the Colle Oppio park, just above the Colosseum, offers a view that most of the millions who queue below never find: an elevated, slightly downward angle straight into the great amphitheatre, taking in the ring of arches and the exposed maze of the "hypogeum", the underground passages beneath the arena floor where animals and gladiators once waited.
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