8 Exceptionally Well Preserved Roman Buildings (Outside Italy)
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- These are some of the best-preserved Roman buildings, outside of Italy which you can go and visit today.
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I am Italian, obviously here it is full of Roman structures still perfect for 2,000 years, and then we have structures from the 70s that collapse
Survivorship bias is a real thing.
@@DallasMay 100x this.
99.99% of Roman structures are gone. We're seeing the few that escaped destruction. The flak towers in Berlin will probably still be around in 2000 years too if we don't knock them down ourselves.
The survivorship bias is absolutely true. The buildings that survive are by far the exception. The Roman equivalent of apartment buildings and things of that nature did not last. The things that did, are the sort of grand monuments, funded by the wealth of emperors and built by slaves over many years. That is why those ones are the ones that are still around. If we in the present wanted to dedicate the time, resources, and effort to build things that would last thousands of years, we totally could. However, the cost of doing that is generally not considered worth it in the current day.
@@Bawhoppen A lot of what we are building today will still be here 10000 years from now, unless we intentionally demo it.
The travesty of Mt. Rushmore will be visible to our far distance descendants 100,000,000 years from now.
@@tripplefives1402 eh. 🤷
I have like many have been fascinated by the Roman Empire since childhood.
I'm from the Philippines, and as a citizen of a country that was colonized by the Spanish Empire for 333 years, I always get fascinated and look unto their influence and it roots back to the Romans, their architecture, traditions, and language, could be seen also in our country and it feels crazy. Most of our old buildings and some words in our language are of Latin influence while being in the far east Asia.
Alea jacta est ...
Me too ! Rome was a Great Culture !
Same! Idk why they just seemed very cool
Understandable, those people achieved something remarkable, its like if we in our time would colonize a quarter of our solar system,
Makes me feel sick when I hear that these beautiful feats of engineering were destroyed/damaged in war.
in Greece we have these old apartment buildings surrounding everything, be it ancient greek and roman or even neoclassical. Only in a few places we have laws for building in a specific design. That's even worse.
@@tripplefives1402 yeah it sort of is like that.
All these structures were made after the area was taken by Roman force (war.........)
@@rensd12 Not all of them but a lot for sure. But few things to think of before saying "boo roman bad". The Roman Empire stayed for a long time because it had a good and working system. Far better than the provinces they "conquered" and vastly improved life quality all over the place. Talking about conquest, they often took the head of the provinces with little to no force at all. In fact some of them were still governed by the same people. And finally, for the vast majority of the provinces they took were in the past colonised or invaded by other populations. Roman were not the first and not the last. And people tend to only put colonisation next to white/western civilisations, but they represent very little to all conquests/invasions the world have seen.
“On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment during a siege of the Acropolis. The resulting explosion severely damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures.”
“Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures". British Museum. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013.
in spain we have a great roman heritage and we are so proud
@david edbrooke-coffin we don't care what you have or haven't heard of, tbh.
@@Risperanto I care thought, so speak for yourself and not by "we"
The coliseum in Nimes, France, is also well preserved. They still hold events (mostly bull fights) and concerts over there.
I was impressed by it when I visited.
Yeah thats why I talked about it in the first video: czcams.com/video/72owaA_K_-k/video.html
I'm somewhat of a History buff and when I backpacked alone through western Europe at 25, I was hitchhiking and by pure chance stumbled upon it when I was dropped in Nîmes by some butcher going to work. I was... pleasantly surprised and amazed.
In Germany, Trier there are many nice preserved Roman buildings as Porta Nigra, The Palatine (Basilika of Constantine) and Kaiserthermen also More!
I can confirm this one. Have been there about a month ago. Magnificent sights
My favorite german city!
I wish you would have mentioned Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia. It's extremely beautiful!
I went to Split, and did not realize it was there until I went to the city center. I was blown away at how amazing it was, and that it was just...there. just wow.
I miss the hagia sophia for me one of the best preserved roman buildings along with the pantheon.
the hagia sophia still exists
@@srbtlevse16 yes i know and the pantheon also.. in Rome.
You are right about Hagia Sophia, it should be counted as well, the building was built 200 year or so after the tetrarchy and it is during the late Roman imperial era and early byzantine.
Testament to their engineering that their works still stand after so many centuries.
I love the Roman Empire thanks for bringing this awesome content to the internet.
The Romans were pretty awesome and left so much behind in some very far reaching places, I wonder how many modern buildings will survive 2000 years or more? Enjoyed the video, Thanks.
Probably a lot more due to deep concrete foundations
The answer is none.
It may be a nice idea to do the same for greek buildings outside greece. There a few in mainland southern italy and of course sicily.
Good idea, indeed
few?
there's also Cyrenaica
Really love these videos of yours, really colourful and insightful snippets into some brief chapters of Roman history, keep them coming bro
Glad you like them Tom 🙏
These videos about preserved Roman architecture are superb. Keep it up!
Glad you like them!
You can show in your next video the Roman Theatre of Merida, it’s really beautiful and it’s still use for its purpose today
As is the theatre in Plovdiv,Bulgaria
in Greece we have thousands of well preserved Roman era buildings - but I know, the west only acknowledges the short-lived "western" Roman empire, not the one who survived for a thousand more years. I just can't help but notice you included the Rotonta. In thessaloniki we have dozens like this
Visiting Pula, Croatia was an unexpected excellent experience. Sitting in a cafe just across from the Temple if Augustus, the amphitheater is amazing, the Venetian fortress high above the city is well preserved. Can’t wait to go back.
😢🇮🇹Pola was part of Italy.
At the time of the first emperor Octavian Augustus the city was included in the Venetia et Histria region.
Great video series! I want to remind you of Hagia Sofia, Valens Aqueduct, Basilica Cistern, Chora Church, Maiden's Tower and Walls of Istanbul, which cannot be missed!
Thanks Serkan, you are correct. I will have to make another video.
I could probably do a whole video of amazing ruins in Istanbul/Constantinople.
Constantinople not Istanbul
@@kostasangisoulaki912 no one gives a shit, stop humiliating yourself
I really love how you locate each structures
Continue the great work! I have been really enjoying your videos! 👌 👍
Will do! Glad you like them! 😉
@@TheSPQRHistorian You forgot Diocletian's Palace in Split
Absolutely amazing!! thanks for sharing.
Fantastic work ! I’m obsessed with your videos. I learned a lot
Beautiful, thank you for showing 🙏
Great video, man! Thank you for the information
I am enjoying your videos immensely. I am an architect and am obsessed with architecture for I can talk about it 24 hours a day. I have always said Rome is the seat of architecture. As they took over other civilizations they took their knowledge and created a large library with the knowledge of the concord world. They also took the best building technology like the arch and rebuild the concord world. You are not only my favorite European historian but the most handsome and sexy one also!
Keep it up man! 😎
Also for me thank you very much that's great information ography of these great Roman structures.. especially those bridges thanks again we'll keep watching
Glad you enjoyed it
I am from thessaloniki and I knew you would include Rotonda. Indeed we have a lot of earthquakes. The last one happened 3 weeks ago.
For me, the Arch and Rotunda are in a sad state in Salonica. Seems there is a minimal effort to protect them and nearly no effort to restore/preserve. I'm glad it is at least protected. 🙏
Beautiful video as always!
Thank you very much!
Give us back Constantinople 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Thank you very interesting I love anything Roman.
To include something from Mérida, Extremadura, Spain (specially its Aqueduct or its Roman Theatre) its a must!
There are also lots of aquaducts , city walls or cities like Ephesus with greatly preserved Roman buildings in Turkey. Hoped for seeing one of them but still nice video 👍🏻.
Worth a visit...or two...each of them...thanks for sharing, awesome buildings!
Definitely! I've seen some of them in real life, but would like to visit all of them!
Man, the Romans truly were amazing. Really humans are just so amazing, obviously we have the capacity to do terrible things but when watching a video like this I can't help but feel pride. It's sad to think of all the history lost to war and time, but even still we have these great structures.
great video!
The Google Earth-like zooming between locations is one of the best ways I've seen to quickly demonstrate the relative locations of each site. Really great job overall!! 👍🏼🏛🦅🛡
You very easily have a new subscriber!
Thanks, yeah I saw that Google Eath trick used somewhere and I knew it would be perfect for a video like this 🙏
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Excellent videography
Amazing architecture
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Nimes in this video. It's known as the most Roman city outside of Rome
I talk about Nimes here: czcams.com/video/72owaA_K_-k/video.html
I lived in porchester as a child, we went to porchester castle a lot, it's such a lovely place to be ❤
Wow, I didn't know about the Rotunda of Galerius. Thanks for making this video. I'm a very big admirer of the Ancient Romans, but only today did I learn of such a well preserved Roman building. Nor did I know about Portchester Castle.
I've been to Pula. It's a lovely temple. There's a lovely amphitheatre in Terragona Spain you might be interested in. These are great vignettes! Thank you!
I'll check it out! I was in Pula a few years ago and I really love the place, friendly people and amazing sites 🏛
A very interesting and well made video.
Good video man
0:26 - Alcantara Bridge, Spain
2:00 - Amphitheater of El Djem, Tunisia
3:15 - City Walls of Lugo, Spain
4:19 - Temple of Augustus, Pula,Croatia
6:00 - Amphitheater of Pula (Arena) - Croatia
7:30 - Lighthouse of Hercules, La Coruna, Spain
9:07 - Porchester Castle, England
10:20 - Rotunda of Galerius, Thessaloniki, Greece
The oldest preseved roman wall is in tarragona (tarraco), is also in spain.
Missing is the aqueduct le pont du guard
@@felicetanka Also not to include something from Mérida is pretty much a sin
Very Good!
Great video! You should add Arles Amphitheatre too
The one of Nîmes is pretty good! We have quite a lot of them still standing in France
Fabulous videos; I'm so glad I found you! :) One you might be interested in is the Roman baths at the town of Bath in Somerset, England. It's well worth a visit.
Oh thank you! 🙏 Yeah I considered having it in this video, and it's a fantastic bath, but it was so heavily rebuilt during the victorian era I decided against it 🤔
@@TheSPQRHistorian Ah, I didn't realise that. Typical of the Victorians though, they rebuilt almost everything!
i went to the Roman baths in about 1966 with my school Moredon juniors Swindon we were one of the last schools to swim there as you were allowed then
@@ozzispurs8461 Wow, what a great place to swim. :)
This is great. There are a few Roman remains in south Wales where I live.
Great commentary 👍
Excellent video! Any idea when the next Roman Emperor video will be ready? I love that series and can’t wait for more
Thanks! I'm not sure yet, but that's what I'm working on at the moment. I might hold on it tho because I know the next video after Nerva will be a long one... 😉
Thank you Your videos help until the world opens again and I can travel.
My grandma´s from Alcantara :-)
Also, you could check "Merida" (Augusta Emerita), the theater and so on...
there's a pretty cool amphitheater in cartegena in spain, they uncovered it I think 20 years ago and their in the process of semi restoring it and protecting the rest of it
You didn't put Diocletian mausoleum now cathedral in Split Croatia, also in Split exist Jupiter Temple, Peristyle square, best preserved Roman cellar etc.
Thankyou so much for your video, looks like we're off to Nimes for a look round..... there is also a beautifully preserved Aqueduct just outside Tarragona in Spain and infact Tarragona itself has many Roman features including a chariot race track, walls and an Amphitheatre all very well preserved.
Also surpised he didn't talk about Merida in these videos
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In my town in the south of England all that remains of Rome is a tiny section of wall from the old city wall. It's only about 3 metres tall now and no more than 10 metres long. Still cool though cos it dates back to the first invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar over 2000 years ago
Still missing from this series is Hadrian's wall, and the theatre in Kaiseraugst in Switzerland
You can do a second part, I think you missed many Roman buildings such as the aqueduct of Segovia or the theater of Merida or the Coliseum of Nimes. Thanks for the video 👍
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@@TheSPQRHistorian Thanks 👍
wow those walls of Lugo. Those are some big thick walls!
Would you do a special on the Roman structures left in present day Turkey?
There's a great looking Greek Roman Theatre in Cappadocia, Anatolia.
in Greece we have these old appartement buildings surrounding everything, be it ancient greek and roman or even neoclassical. Only in a few places we have laws for building in a specific design. Everyone in the 60s and 70s started building these monstrosities so they can make money renting. You can clearly see it at 11:20 . It is a shame because we have almost everything. We have lots of mountains but also a lot of beaches and islands, ancient greek and roman ruins, medieval castles and monasteries and some good neoclassical areas . Then you go to a city, small town and sometimes even a village and you see the appartement vomit.
WOW !! thanks for sharing, at Pula croatia, you have aslo another Roman survivor : a Triumph arch ! at his actual place the street is below than ground level ! lol ............ Take care SPQR Aeternia !
I find it so amazing that these thousand-year-old structures still have modern-day uses and purposes
amphitheatre of pula looks amazing
i've seen stunning Roman buildings in England, some still with the original colors intact.
The Roman Basilica in Trier, Germany, is also well preserved and holds some record as one of the largest ancient hall buildings still in good shape. 😉
Great video, but you know, to please people you should have done the 800 exceptionally well preserved Roman buildings… Anyhow, Roman times are my favorite in history. Thanks for your work.
There is a Amphitheater in Trier, Germany that is covered with moss but is very nice still. It was built around 100 A.D. Coordinates: 49° 44′ 53″ North, 6° 38′ 57″ East. Thanks
It needs to be restored!
i remember watching a promotional piece on the movie "Gladiator" and it showed how they took the ruins from The Flavian Amphitheater and used CGI to repair the ruins. What they didn't tell us was they shot parts of it in Amphitheater of El Djem. They probably didn't mention it because your average viewer on History Channel wouldn't know or care about a second ancient amphitheater.
The Segovia aqueduct in Spain is also perfectly preserved
Sadly all movie depictions of Rome only focus on war/gladiators/sex. But you have to have really strong economy/normal life to be able to build and maintain such structures and culture.
It is fascinating how Roman Empire could be seen as a military/politic/economic and architectural giant yet in science they didnt shine that much. Funny how they were so smart and intellectual on those three thing and not in science.
@@antoniopaveskovic1990 Science is a very broad topic. All of the things mentioned could be considered sciences. If by sciences you mean chemistry, physics, or stuff like that, Roman concrete was technically a chemistry-esque invention of theirs, Its odd composition allowed it to be incredibly water resistant. In physics, pretty much all of architecture is using some kind of physics. Warfare had to make use of the technologies of the time of course, think metal weapons and armor. The thing about words is that they hold different meanings for everyone, if slightly, so what does science mean to you?
@@antoniopaveskovic1990 I'd argue they were very scientifically advanced, particularly in engineering.
@@toddhoward1892 The Romans were experimentalists while the Greeks were theorists
7:22 Okay, now that is awesome.
I think they need to restore the colosseum, it just feels like it's appropriate since it is such a functional building and it can still be used by today's entertainments such as concerts and other events.
was waiting for pula, been there many times and love it. Ive stood on top of the amphitheater in pula, not sure if that is still allowed.
😢🇮🇹Pola was part of Italy.
At the time of the first emperor Octavian Augustus the city was included in the Venetia et Histria region.
@@alessiorenzoni5586 yes I know the whole istrian coast was part of Italy. That's why it looks so much alike
The city walls, safeguarded from invaders from the outside and safeguarded their slaves from leaving on the inside. The Romans almost thought of everything. EXcellent video thanks
Please check Merida, in South West Spain
The thumbnail ruin was super cool!How come it wasn’t in this video about ruins outside of Italy?
Grym video! Alltid varit otroligt fascinerad av Romarriket o allt som hör till. Du låter svensk så skriver på svenska 😄👍🏻
Tackar, stämmer bra 😄
It is kind of fun as you "fly" to all these different countries of today, and then realize...just how enormously large the Roman Empire really was.
2 more to add to the list: porta nigra as well as the Konstantinbasilika (Augusta Trevevorum, one of the best preserved roman closed aula buildings, looking at it you wouldn't think it older than a 100 years) in Trier and St. Gereon's church in Cologne (though it has been extended and altered over the millenia, but the prechristian spheral dome is still at its centre)
Un grande teatro romano intatto nei pressi di antalya in Turchia, il teatro di Amman in Giordania, L'acquedotto a Istanbul, Turchia,il vallo di Adriano in G.B. e tanto altro in Africa, medio oriente .
Colosseum in that time is like sport-stadium today ??
Sport stadium/theater.
But they make a lot of more things, like battles recunstructions and naval battles too(called “naumachie”)
Romans are like Gods.. i love them..
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0:51 that sounded like ten thousand years lol
Beautiful ! What is your next destination?
A very open minded empire 😍
We have quit a bit a well preserved roman building in south of France too
Yeah, I cover some of those in this video: czcams.com/video/72owaA_K_-k/video.html
Also teh Roman Theater of Merida in Spain( Emerita Augusta, also known as the little Rome of Spain)
You forgot Pont du Gard, one of the masterpiece of the Romans !
I didnt forget; czcams.com/video/72owaA_K_-k/video.html
the chariots were updated, the horses replaced by bikes and bycicles....all else stays the same. the bridge is still satnding =)
Amazing content. Very poor audio though brother. Couldn't understand a word.
I love Rome history
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what about Efes in Turkey it has a lot of roman buildings in it
a work for eternity, what a nice structures it could have been intact until today if not by too much wars and invasions,in my opinion only about 40 or 30 oercents of these ancient buildings are that remains we are seen today.
I love how fast pula was shown since many people forget that croatia and the balkans exist
You should do one about the Garni temple in Armenia! If you have already done something about it, I wanna see it ;)
edit: Online it says it was Greek, Greco-Roman. From the time period and the look of it, maybe it's more Roman than Greek actually ^^'
its interesting the major advances in technology, architecture and society, tend to happen during empires people often describe as tirany....
Great video again but I still miss some in Central Europe and Eastern Europe, in Switzerland,Austria,Hungary,Romania,Serbia,Bulgaria,North Macedonia,Slovenia or Armenia (Temple of Garni). In Croatia (for example Split) , in the middle east or North Africa (for example Lepis Magna) or Marocco or Portugal in Southwestern Europe or in Benelux (for example the roman wall in Tongres). I'm very glad you put to sites in Pula, Croatia in it and an English one in this one. I love your vlogs. but I'm a little spoiled. Keep up the good work.upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Roman_Empire_Trajan_117AD.png the roman empire on its highest
lol you mentioned north macedonia and not Albania who has the biggest amphitheater in the balkans
@@gigasigma8373 oh tell me, where exactly
@@MrJlin1982 in the ancient city of Durres