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Immediately northeast of the Colosseum is the Domus Aurea, the fabulous villa with extensive gardens built by the Emperor Nero, who spent just a few years in his “Golden House” before killing himself in a.d. 68.
As an old Anglo-Saxon prophecy goes: “While stands the Colosseum, Rome shall stand; when falls the Colosseum, Rome shall fall; and when Rome falls, with it shall fall the world. ”
A kilometer (about half a mile) south of the Colosseum, the huge third-century Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla) were built for 1,600 people to bathe in considerable style and luxury.
From its grassy knolls, enjoy the fine view back over the Colosseum or southward over the great Circus Maximus, where chariot races were held for crowds of up to 200,000.
Of Rome’s countless inspirational churches and palazzos, it is the Colosseum — what Byron called “the gladiator’s bloody circus”—that is the symbol of the city’s eternity.