Raining inside the Pantheon

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
  • Stand underneath the Pantheon's oculus with Darius Arya and experience what it is like when it rains inside Rome's most gorgeous temple! The oculus of the Pantheon spans nearly 9 meters and is entirely open. When it rains (and rarely, snows) the precipitation falls through the hole onto the ancient pavement, getting it wet. Much of the water evaporates at it falls earthward, but it's quite the scene no matter where you stand inside the Pantheon. I take you right underneath, to get wet and admire the experience. Enjoy!
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Комментарии • 91

  • @Suz-e-K
    @Suz-e-K 3 года назад +63

    So cool! I've wondered what it would be like in there when it rains and now I know. Thanks for showing us.

    • @AncientRomeLive
      @AncientRomeLive 3 года назад +4

      My pleasure- see other videos I have of the sunlight striking the entrance on April 21!

    • @1LEgGOdt
      @1LEgGOdt 2 года назад +5

      Just imagine how magical it would look like when it’s raining Rose Petals on the Day of the Pentecost. It truly is a sight to see.

    • @archonicmakes
      @archonicmakes Год назад

      Now we just have to see what it’s like if it hails…

  • @g1stylempdesign929
    @g1stylempdesign929 Год назад +8

    Everything is more important in the Rain. To me it adds an ethereal quality to the mundane, elevating the extraordinary, haunting and immersive.

  • @daviddietz2287
    @daviddietz2287 11 месяцев назад +10

    Very satisfying to watch! Definitely feel like I am there. Great mix of narration and the sound of the rain. Thanks!

    • @DariusArya
      @DariusArya  10 месяцев назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @bethwilliams4903
    @bethwilliams4903 9 месяцев назад +3

    One of my professors said the best time to be in the Pantheon is during a thunderstorm, the sound of thunder alone would be a memory I would never forget - of course when he traveled to Rome for study he would be there a whole semester or longer and had the opportunity of such a happy circumstance - this video does come close, thank you!

  • @Sorsha011
    @Sorsha011 3 года назад +5

    thank you so much! I think it's my favourite building in Rome. I can't wait to return...

  • @heroedeleyenda05
    @heroedeleyenda05 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for showing us! that was litterally the first thought that came to my mind when i learned that the roof had an opening.

  • @NewShockerGuy
    @NewShockerGuy 2 года назад +6

    I'm amazed that there is no one there...lol. I was just there 2 weeks ago and people EVERYWHERE. Lines waiting to go in..etc. It was nuts even for almost the end of the season.. I'd love to go back again when it's not as busy. rome was awesome. I really enjoyed Italy!

    • @unknown.1043
      @unknown.1043 6 месяцев назад +1

      Visiting when it’s empty is incredible. You get to really soak it all in. I was there back in January 2019 and it was empty just like in this video and it was absolutely memorable.

  • @MyItalianCircle
    @MyItalianCircle 3 года назад +6

    Stunning. I've never been in Rome on a rainy day - it's even more charming. Non vedo l'ora di tornarci! Grazie Darius.

  • @boogsassy1
    @boogsassy1 Год назад +5

    Amazing. I go tomorrow and have seen it many years ago but I'm excited to see it again and have never seen it in the rain, it's neat how it just rains in it as if it's so naturally made to handle it❤️

  • @ROMA--AETERNA
    @ROMA--AETERNA 3 года назад +9

    Can never get enough of this structure and this is a new perspective with some information I previously didn't know. Great videography!
    During Antiquity, I've read that statues of Augustus & Agrippa were in those niches that flank the doors.

    • @AncientRomeLive
      @AncientRomeLive 3 года назад +1

      Many thanks- yes, so we imagine that the Hadrianic version held very large statues

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak 2 года назад +4

    So cool and so strange to see it rain indoors. Love the ancient technology the Roman's used in their control

  • @rossl2344
    @rossl2344 Год назад +2

    Thank you for your time & dedication to explain the beauty of Ancient Rome

  • @adriennefu1051
    @adriennefu1051 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you for filming this 💜

  • @niliancabral4152
    @niliancabral4152 3 месяца назад

    Thanks for showing us, while I was studying Rome's art I found out about the Panteon's oculus and drain system

  • @stiannobelisto573
    @stiannobelisto573 3 года назад +7

    I would love to go there now that there are no tourists!

    • @AncientRomeLive
      @AncientRomeLive 3 года назад

      It's an uneven period. The Pantheon and museums are shut again as COVID numbers remain high.

  • @johannesnicolaas
    @johannesnicolaas Год назад +1

    Pure magic. I am so happy that I found your site. Due to ill heath I can not travel but this helps!! Such clear and perfect images! You make my day. Sir! Greetings from Holland.

  • @LR2894h
    @LR2894h 3 месяца назад

    I was watching Rick Steves' Rome episode on PBS. When he showed The Pantheon, he didn't explain what happens when it rains, so I came to RUclips to find out. Thanks!

  • @TheBanjoShowOfficial
    @TheBanjoShowOfficial Год назад +21

    We truly fell as a species. We fell from excellency and the potential of the human spirit. There is not one place on Earth from modernity that you can compare to a creation as this. Creations like these are marvels of the world. Utterly unique in nature. And unchanging.

    • @C0LomI3eanr
      @C0LomI3eanr 6 месяцев назад +1

      I agree and see your points. However, this is only possible due to people dedicating their entire life to just this one thing or one experience. Not saying it’s a bad or good thing. It’s just different times where people had the time to truly only dedicate their life to one thing. And the question here is, was that their passion or were they forced as slaves to work on this? Not sure on the answer tbh

  • @Charles-xe2qh
    @Charles-xe2qh 3 года назад +3

    Please keep up the good work Darius! I shall send you a small donation later. Yes, seeing rainfall inside the Pantheon is something I would dearly like to see as and when I am able to travel to Rome again. Also, I would love to see it when it snows and when the sunlight from the oculus hits the main door, which I believe happens around now.
    The Pantheon is, to me, by far the most wonderful and irreplaceable building anywhere. One of the very few ancient buildings that is still largely intact - it's incredible to be able to walk into a building that would still be entirely recognisable to Emperor Hadrian. It is also one of the very few ancient buildings still to retain its original roof.
    I read with surprise recently that it is now thought that the main doors may be the originals. If so, they must be some of the oldest in situ doors anywhere and perhaps the only original bronze Roman doors still in situ? I believe that the original doors from the Roman Senate building were moved to one of the major churches in Rome. If the doors to the Pantheon are the originals, it raises the curious question of why they don't fill the entire door opening? We do know that the Pantheon was not entirely completed as per the original design - the columns at the front are not at their intended height for example. Perhaps for some reason casting doors to the full height of the opening was not possible in time?

    • @DariusArya
      @DariusArya  3 года назад +6

      Thanks a lot, Charles. You can find the Pencost flowers and sunlight striking the threshold videos on this very channel! Snow, I've seen as well- but it looks like rain! The doors here are ancient but considered a later addition; The much larger, original doors were lost long ago, without documentation. The Curia bronze doors are located today at S. John Lateran. I'm posting weekly now, so stay tuned for more, from Rome, to Italy, to sites throughout the Mediterranean.

    • @Charles-xe2qh
      @Charles-xe2qh 3 года назад +2

      @@DariusArya I'll check out those other videos. Those doors at St John Lateran could make a good video perhaps. I think those surviving relics of ancient Rome are very interesting. Also, I see that outside the church is the world's largest obelisk which used to be in the Circus Maximus.

    • @DariusArya
      @DariusArya  3 года назад +4

      @@Charles-xe2qh Yes, a great topic- go to ancientromelive.org and ruclips.net/user/wedigrome for tons of related Rome content- special access to film in museums like Museo Nazionale Romano...

  • @hildaramirez1372
    @hildaramirez1372 Год назад +1

    He visitado en tres ocasiones el Panteón y nunca pude verlo cuando llueve. Siempre me pregunté como se vería y si eran efectivos tan pequeños desagues... Por lo menos para mí, el momento es increíblemente poético....rodeado de la belleza del entorno, en una construcción admirable y tan llena de historia. Solo puedo decirte: Gracias... Gracias... Gracias...

  • @avroml
    @avroml 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for taking us with you!

  • @florencegreen3146
    @florencegreen3146 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you and the tecnologie, i have been there, but so many people in Rome kill me.. all of us have the right to live so many wonderful things of the history. I really enjoy your videos I discovery only yesterday 11 jan.2024.. and many questions.

  • @theophanesantoniou8539
    @theophanesantoniou8539 Год назад

    it s not only the largest unreinforced dome of all times, it s also the oldest and the most beautiful one!

  • @xhawk69x14
    @xhawk69x14 6 месяцев назад

    ... and snow! I would love to see that!

  • @stephanieyee9784
    @stephanieyee9784 Год назад

    Darius, thank you so much for this video. The Pantheon is one of two sites in Rome I still haven't been to. I don't know why. The other is the Baths of Caracalla which you featured in another video.
    I Will return to Rome one day.

  • @evaivanhaintz
    @evaivanhaintz 2 года назад

    Thanks! It is exactly what I was looking for.

  • @cornhusker2006
    @cornhusker2006 Год назад

    Thanks for the great video!

  • @Jessica-gp7se
    @Jessica-gp7se 3 года назад

    I really like all of your videos and i can't wait for the next one 😀

  • @ktkatte6791
    @ktkatte6791 3 года назад

    Thanks for all you've done and do :)

  • @theophanesantoniou8539
    @theophanesantoniou8539 Год назад +1

    the roman pantheon was is and will be the most sturdy building of all times. i remember people saying to me that "this is an empire that will last for a thousand of years!! well that one stood up for two thousands!!!!! and i m definitely sure that if no nuclear war comes up it will survive three!!!!!!

  • @johndean3475
    @johndean3475 2 года назад +3

    still standing after two millennia ! incredible Romans !

  • @manuelbrs8467
    @manuelbrs8467 3 года назад +3

    Thanks for the video!
    Can you tell me what kind of camera did you use?

    • @DariusArya
      @DariusArya  3 года назад +2

      new iphone 12

    • @manuelbrs8467
      @manuelbrs8467 3 года назад

      @@DariusArya 😱 I can’t believe it, it looks so good for being a phone...
      Thanks!

    • @AncientRomeLive
      @AncientRomeLive 3 года назад +1

      @@manuelbrs8467 with an osmo gimbal at times, too

    • @TheBanjoShowOfficial
      @TheBanjoShowOfficial Год назад

      @@DariusAryayou recorded this with your phone? Lmao wtf I thought you were going to say like a sony a7iii or something

  • @whitepath6295
    @whitepath6295 2 года назад

    Fantastic.

  • @Insectoid_
    @Insectoid_ 2 года назад

    Beautiful

  • @franvarga709
    @franvarga709 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic! How did you clear out the temple? Never seen it so empty.

    • @Jive33
      @Jive33 2 года назад +2

      It was closed for covid

  • @wadeguidry6675
    @wadeguidry6675 3 года назад

    Excellent!

  • @lillianz
    @lillianz Год назад

    I just read they are planning to add 5 euros entry cost so I came searching what happens it rains as the last time I visited, many years ago, it was a sunny day. Now I wonder, after reading your description, if snowing inside has been captured on film!

    • @lillianz
      @lillianz Год назад

      OK I found some snow videos, and it looks so ethereal!

  • @TerrificTricks
    @TerrificTricks 7 месяцев назад

    And there’s no “caution wet floor signs”! How did you go when no one else was there?

  • @marthaarya167
    @marthaarya167 11 месяцев назад

    Lovely

  • @Dio-hu9ku
    @Dio-hu9ku 8 месяцев назад

    what day/month did you make this video? there were no tourists!!

  • @mademoiselledusfonctionell1609
    @mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 2 года назад

    I wonder what happens to the water.
    Are all the lower regions Pantheon buried,
    or can you get to the "innards" of the lower floors from inside?
    Where does the water go??? (I would put a giant pot
    under the oculus and collect the water. A bit worried.)

  • @spiderprint
    @spiderprint 3 года назад +1

    Weird question: what are all the holes on the exterior near the roof? They look like bullet holes. Thank you for uploading! Very interesting.

    • @victoriap1561
      @victoriap1561 3 года назад +2

      If it's like other pagan temples there were probably statues of gods there that were taken off when Christianity became the dominant religion .
      A theory of mine maybe I'm wrong

    • @sjov9
      @sjov9 3 года назад

      1. It makes the roof lighter
      2. It provide light
      3. It actually acted like ventilation system during summer

    • @AncientRomeLive
      @AncientRomeLive 3 года назад +3

      Regarding the external pediment- the "bullet holes" are from the ripped out metal pins that would have held in place the pedimental decoration, usually reconstructed as a large eagle holding a crown.

    • @garyfimbres6397
      @garyfimbres6397 9 месяцев назад

      Pl​@@victoriap1561

  • @igloo2862
    @igloo2862 4 месяца назад

    it's so empty! is that because of COVID or is it genrally always empty?

    • @DariusArya
      @DariusArya  4 месяца назад

      That was during Covid- now it's quite packed!

  • @uncleruckus4060
    @uncleruckus4060 3 года назад +1

    I subscribed
    Why?
    Cause you got the coolest name

  • @christineyetman640
    @christineyetman640 Год назад

    Why is the Pantheon left open to be exposed to the elements..It is very beautiful to see ..but does it have an actual purpose

    • @rinni8157
      @rinni8157 Год назад +1

      It was build 2000 gear ago by rhe roman for the gods. Phanteon means all god. A lot of nodern and neoclassical building if you see take inspiration by this. Now is a church because the pope in the 6th century wanted this. Now is still a church, bit even a architectur work of art. All is autentical. Maybe only the painting are not. Is it opem because for the light and the magical expiries that this can give you. On the floars it have holes in rhe center part and is inclined for the rain. The sun in cetain preiod as the birth of rome illuminatr the center. Is open for magnificent that this light give to the building.l and pray the gods.

  • @gibbethoskins8621
    @gibbethoskins8621 2 месяца назад

    Seems counter intuitive that they left it opened

  • @WoonBradley
    @WoonBradley 6 месяцев назад

    The drain hole ever gets stuck or blocked?

  • @neronevetti4540
    @neronevetti4540 2 года назад

    That floor is exquisite how did they do it.

    • @spankflaps1365
      @spankflaps1365 2 года назад

      There’s a video here showing restorers cutting and polishing marble pieces for the Parthenon in Athens, using hand tool methods the same as the ancient Greeks and Romans - ruclips.net/video/lhgatTwZwQU/видео.html

  • @JohnDoe-px4ko
    @JohnDoe-px4ko Год назад

    Is the drainage original?

  • @karlherkess7066
    @karlherkess7066 6 месяцев назад

    Surprised there isn't a wet floor sign in the middle. Safety first😂 no wonder they used to make wonders like this they weren't held back by rules/regulations.

    • @DariusArya
      @DariusArya  6 месяцев назад

      They usually section off the area that’s wet!

  • @ismailmukooza2005
    @ismailmukooza2005 Год назад +1

    🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

  • @moesypittounikos
    @moesypittounikos 3 года назад

    Why didn't the Romans put a glass window over the hole?

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    @golgumbazguide...4113 Месяц назад

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  • @georgeeroes256
    @georgeeroes256 3 года назад

    also good doco on deformed Hun heads and Roman collapse “Treasures Decoded”

  • @MT-qu2tg
    @MT-qu2tg 2 года назад

    Has anyone ever fallen on the wet floor?

  • @atharvakarandikar441
    @atharvakarandikar441 3 года назад +1

    did no one heard the gunshots at 5:05 ??

  • @ivanpoljic1790
    @ivanpoljic1790 3 месяца назад

    I have alergic reaction on masked people .

  • @nenogluscevic2449
    @nenogluscevic2449 Год назад

    Excellent Video.