The Best-Preserved Roman Temple in Italy
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2023
- Though not as famous as the Pantheon, two superimposed Roman temples in Brescia have a claim to be the best-preserved - or at least the most unique - in Italy.
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I'm from Brescia, since I was a baby I've always been amazed by the tempio capitolino, it is a shame that this temple isn't know all over the world.
Love from italy
Amazing to me because I haven’t seen any Roman interior decor to rival these beautiful designs before. I never dreamed this existed. Thank you for the great video.
You aint seen nothing yet: The College of the Augustales or the House of Neptune and Amphitrite
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The Angel Sculpture is Great.😊
Its an important note for any tourist to roman sites, that many might not know. When reconstructing historic monuments (especially in the finance starved italy after ww2), partly to distinguish between original parts and reconstructed sections, like in this temples pillars, modern brick of modern sizes is used to semirecreate the pillars, but avoid tricking tourists and archaeologists to come. Minor work on frescos often leaves a mottled effect. Again, so as to complete the image, but clearly differentiate renovations from the original.
At the start of any visit this seems odd and distracting, but your eye quickly adjusts and you also get a massive apreciation of the skills of the conservators.
What a fascinating observation 🤔.... I spent a month touring Europe and a week in Italy. I never noticed nor did any museum docent mention such subtleties used in restorations. Cool! Thx for sharing.
the "victory" is sublime
Agreed.
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High on my list of places I desperately want to visit. The Brescia Victory is my favourite surviving Roman statue.
I grew up in Italy and visited Brescia many times, I did not know this temple existed so thank you
Incredible they could do bronze statues and crown moulding like that with such detail. Those ancient artisans of old Rome and Greece were the real gods.
I stumbled on this place looking for a lunch spot on the way to Verona… so impressive. We had the museum and basement to ourselves.. a rare treat. I even enjoyed the sound and light show with the bees! So exciting and rare to see Republic era temples and artefacts in such
condition.
Really enjoy your visits to historic sites, and the commentary you provide. I hope you can do many more!
Totally fantastic, Doc. Thank yuo for filming and educating us about this unknown gem. Thank you thank you
Its two museums in one. Both of a Roman temple and to 19th century ideas of historical preservation.
I'd put the marble frescoes on my own walls right away.
That’s my plan, too!
Impossible. Find out something different 😂
I would love to see this one day, thanks for showing us the temple.
Thank you Gavin !
Brescia is the second city after rome for roman inscriptions, santa giulia complex with its domus is a must!
Ho lavorato spesso a Brescia e andavo tutte le volte a visitare quei meravigliosi resti archeologici
Damnit i was just passing through brescia in January but skipped this in favor of extra time in verona. You make me regret my choice!
Amazing , love the marble floor and the Latin inscription
Absolutely Gorgeous. Also makes me wonder if the Capitoline Triad influenced what would become (and survives as an amalgam within) the Holy Trinity.
Earliest artistic depictions of the trinity were found in Greece and Anatolia so most likely not but I can see the symbolism of building a large church in the vicinity.
Fantastic temple, thank you for bringing this extraordinary ruin to my attention.
I had no idea that this existed. And it's close enough for a day trip from Milan. I hope to do it one day. Thanks for the video.
Wow! This is fantastic. Thank you for showing it to us.
I was just thinking about your uploads Mr. Ryan.
I hope you are well!
That's Dr. Ryan to you, lol!
Beautiful! Thank you.
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The posture of the statue of Victory is eerily similar to that of Venus de Milo, don't you think?
Another great video. Hope you do more of these around Europe.
Very cool. Thanks for providing this.
Thank you ! 😍
So if i want to go there i have to go to Brescia.... i would love to take my daughter there. Thank you for showing these beautiful site's with us 🥰
Thank you.
That is so beautiful ❤
The frescoes are beautiful
Very cool thank you! Just want I wanted to see🙀😃
Why didn't I know about this channel? I've been subscribed to your other channel for ages.
Love to have the marble floor recreated for my home
Your comment at the end about the museum project from the 19th century made me want to see more Victorian and other pre-WWI attempts to preserve ancient culture, which themselves have been preserved.
Wish I had the means to visit these amazing places.
The statue of the winged victory is one of the most beautiful in existence...but your title is a bit clickbait: there are much better preserved roman temples in Italy... what about the Pantheon?
This is the best preserved (and partially reconstructed) Temple in Northern Italy. The absolutely best in Italy is the Pantheon in Rome.
Wow l interno é davvero notevolissimo !
Roman bronze statuary are much more impressive than the marble work 👍🏼👍🏼
🇮🇹🤓BRIXIA - ANCIENT BRESCIA (google translate)
The oldest traces of the settlement of Brescia, in Latin Brixia, from the toponymic root (brik- brig= high ground) due to the Cidneo hill, date back to the end of the 4th millennium BC, in the Copper Age, discovered on the outskirts of Brescia.
In the 5th century BC the city became a commercial link between the Greek and Etruscan world and the transalpine one.
Between the 3rd and 1st century BC, as Pliny, Livy, Polybius and Strabo testify, the ancient city became the most important center of the Cenománi (a Celtic tribe), caput Cenomanorum, traces of which remain under the Roman public area.
Polybius narrates that in 225 BC, the Cenománi, together with the Veneti, tightened an alliance with the Romans, already close to the war against the Gauls, obtaining their permission to extend up to the Adda to the detriment of the Insubres to the west.
The Romans stationed their veterans in the colonies of Piacenza and Cremona in 218, which the Cenománi perceived as an invasion and declared war on Rome in 201, but they were defeated in 197 BC In 194 BC they again made an alliance with Rome which he gave them the title of Socii Foederati.
From the 2nd century BC the process of Romanisation began, with the construction of roads linking Rome to the north, including via Emilia and via Postumia.
In 89 BC, with the Lex Pompeia de Gallia Citeriore and the granting of Latin law (ius Latii), Brescia had its first urban layout, with the forum, dominated to the north by the late republican sanctuary.
It had the most important sacred area in northern Italy, from the end of the 1st century. BC, with the first of the three centuriations of the Brescia area.
Between 49 and 42 BC, Brescia became a Municipium Romanum and with the emperor Augustus, between 27 and 8 BC, it received the organization of colony with the official title of Colonia Civica Augusta Brixia, included in the X Regio (Venetia et Histria), transforming itself in the urban planning, in the technique and in the beauty of public and private buildings, in a small Urbe.
Also in the Augustan age, a wall was created around the hill, together with the public aqueduct.
The Alpine wars of 16 BC aggregated Valsabbia, the Giudicarie, the lower Sarca, the western shores of Garda and Valcamonica to Brescia, the latter however until the middle of the 1st century AD, when it became an autonomous Res Publica with enrollment in the tribus Quirina.
With the victory of Vespasian at Betriacum, near Cremona, in 69 AD, the monumental center of the city was restructured and embellished with the construction of a Capitolium above the previous sanctuary, a wider and shorter forum than the previous one from the Augustan age and the basilica.
At the end of the 2nd century, to the east of the capitolium, the theater was built, one of the largest in the X Regio after Verona and Pula. In the 4th century numerous Christian churches were erected above the pagan temples and centres, taking advantage of their building and architectural material.
Thus the Centro do Brixia was demolished by moving it from Piazza del Foro, symbol of the pagan city, to Piazza del Duomo, now Paul VI, a medieval Christian center with the cathedrals of San Pietro de Dom and Santa Maria Maggiore and the baptistery of San Giovanni.
Between the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 6th AD the Goths settled in the city and, starting from 569 AD, the Longobards.
It must have survived because it became a Church? Incredible to see a bronze pagan goddess statue in such complete condition.
I am pretty sure I saw a Roman ruin in Nashville Tennessee today…..
I wonder if the locals have considering restoring marble to the facade…
But what about the third room of the temple?
i would like an explanation for what is going on about 2:12 -2-24, exactly wtf, or i mean what order exactly is this!
oh wait it's a reconstruction with some supporting elements, is that the reason for the unbalanced, multicolored, chaotic appearance?
Amazing, unfairly neglected treasures!
The best preserved Roman temple in Italy is the Pantheon. Even the floor is 80% original.
Just keep your eyes on that statue, just to be sure.
The Pantheon was a pagan Roman temple and is still in use.
does anyone know why nike and victory have wings?
In Greek mythology, Nike was often associated with Zeus, the king of the gods, and was said to fly over battlefields to encourage armies and ensure their victory. She was also considered the companion of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare.
at the .10 mark Garrett does what he does in every video - he talks so fast that his words run together and are incomprehensible. G: pls. watch your diction, THANK YOU.
The best preserved roman temple in Italy is the Pantheon in Rome.
The best preserved Roman temple in Rome is The Pantheon...!!!
Hmmm... I'm not sure whether the monument here is the original temple or the rebuild/restoration. I find a lot of these 19th century restorations simply horrid: they were actually rebuilds. Nevertheless we owe the existence of archaeology to those initial attempts just as we owe modern medicine to those early attempts. Too bad the early archaeologists got their hands on the very best sites first. Maybe a combination of lack of humility and the desperate need to preserve prominent sites from further decay and continued unabated looting was to blame. I suppose we should be thankful to them we still have some parts of the original monuments preserved thanks to their efforts. In this occasion though, the choices of restoration and rebuilding materials, the use of the restored temple as a museum as well as the use of the salvaged remains are not my favourite - quite far from it. Probably the choice of rebuilding materials was dictated in large part by cost.
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