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Golden House

 

Golden House (Domus Aurea), the vast palace built by the emperor Nero in Rome after the great fire of AD 64, covering, it is calculated, about 50 hectares (125 acres) between the Palatine and Esquiline hills; the centre-piece was an ornamental lake in the valley later occupied by the Colosseum.

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