Domus Aurea palace was designed to take advantage of artificially created landscapes built in the city of Ancient Rome by the Emperor Nero in 64 AD. The palace originally occupies nearly 200 acres (80 hectares) and occupied parts of four of Rome's seven ancient hills. It is also known as Nero's Golden Palace. It was decorated by one of the finest architect of Rome who was imprisoned into it by Nero.
It was closed for general public and tourists in 1980s due to its detoriating condition. Then it was renovated as shown in the above image and opened for all visitors in 1999.
In March 2010 it again started to face certain damage due to obvious reasons of being 2000 years old building. It is certainly a bad news for the tourists however steps are being taken as about 60-80 square meters of vault ceiling in one of the galleries crumpled beneath a garden frequented by tourists and passers-by. It was one of the greatest damages in last 50 years in that area.
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