The 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana on Rome's Palatine Hill reopened to the public on Thursday following decades of structural restoration work.
On the eve of the reopening, the official, Alfonsina Russo, quoted a first-century Roman poet as saying the sprawling palace seemed"infinite" and that"its grandiosity was just like the grandiosity of the sky."
Although the domus, or residence, is named after Tiberius, who ruled the empire after the death of Augustus, archeological studies indicated that the palace's foundations date from the era of Nero, shortly after the fire of 64 A.D that devastated much of the city. Thanks to the palazzo's reopening to the public, visitors today can get a better idea of the path ancient emperors and their courts enjoyed en route to the domus.
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