The Best-Preserved Roman Temple in Italy

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Scenic Routes to the Past

Scenic Routes to the Past

Жыл бұрын

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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@massimilianobonera3048
@massimilianobonera3048 Жыл бұрын
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
@judithdomangue9995
@judithdomangue9995 Жыл бұрын
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.
@chumleyk
@chumleyk 3 ай бұрын
You aint seen nothing yet: The College of the Augustales or the House of Neptune and Amphitrite
@luluandmeow
@luluandmeow Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Italy and visited Brescia many times, I did not know this temple existed so thank you
@harishwala5882
@harishwala5882 Жыл бұрын
Hello from India 🇮🇳. The Angel Sculpture is Great.😊
@alecbrown66
@alecbrown66 Жыл бұрын
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.
@daveharden5929
@daveharden5929 8 ай бұрын
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.
@anthonycicero6102
@anthonycicero6102 Жыл бұрын
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.
@whitefriarnerd
@whitefriarnerd Жыл бұрын
High on my list of places I desperately want to visit. The Brescia Victory is my favourite surviving Roman statue.
@creepinwhileyousleepin
@creepinwhileyousleepin Жыл бұрын
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.
@TWOCOWS1
@TWOCOWS1 4 ай бұрын
Totally fantastic, Doc. Thank yuo for filming and educating us about this unknown gem. Thank you thank you
@abelroy
@abelroy Жыл бұрын
the "victory" is sublime
@Z__K217
@Z__K217 Жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@abelroy
@abelroy Жыл бұрын
@@Z__K217 then we agree 😉
@tankerraid
@tankerraid Ай бұрын
Really enjoy your visits to historic sites, and the commentary you provide. I hope you can do many more!
@obsidianjane4413
@obsidianjane4413 Жыл бұрын
Its two museums in one. Both of a Roman temple and to 19th century ideas of historical preservation.
@Z__K217
@Z__K217 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Gavin !
@Breakfast_of_Champions
@Breakfast_of_Champions Жыл бұрын
I'd put the marble frescoes on my own walls right away.
@pandakicker1
@pandakicker1 Жыл бұрын
That’s my plan, too!
@harishwala5882
@harishwala5882 Жыл бұрын
Impossible. Find out something different 😂
@TXMEDRGR
@TXMEDRGR 6 ай бұрын
I would love to see this one day, thanks for showing us the temple.
@mariskavh8724
@mariskavh8724 8 ай бұрын
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 🥰
@Babbajune
@Babbajune 11 ай бұрын
That is so beautiful ❤
@rogeramezquita5685
@rogeramezquita5685 Жыл бұрын
Amazing , love the marble floor and the Latin inscription
@matteobrunello8067
@matteobrunello8067 Жыл бұрын
Brescia is the second city after rome for roman inscriptions, santa giulia complex with its domus is a must!
@robertosans5250
@robertosans5250 8 ай бұрын
Fantastic temple, thank you for bringing this extraordinary ruin to my attention.
@liamtahaney713
@liamtahaney713 Жыл бұрын
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!
@luigis.6686
@luigis.6686 Ай бұрын
Ho lavorato spesso a Brescia e andavo tutte le volte a visitare quei meravigliosi resti archeologici
@Hal10034
@Hal10034 Жыл бұрын
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.
@megansfo
@megansfo Жыл бұрын
Wow! This is fantastic. Thank you for showing it to us.
@LordTelperion
@LordTelperion Жыл бұрын
Absolutely Gorgeous. Also makes me wonder if the Capitoline Triad influenced what would become (and survives as an amalgam within) the Holy Trinity.
@krist-yonnarain7786
@krist-yonnarain7786 Жыл бұрын
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.
@xwiirastusx
@xwiirastusx Жыл бұрын
The posture of the statue of Victory is eerily similar to that of Venus de Milo, don't you think?
@Manu-ih7zf
@Manu-ih7zf Жыл бұрын
Beautiful! Thank you.
@LREY888
@LREY888 Жыл бұрын
I was just thinking about your uploads Mr. Ryan. I hope you are well!
@cerberus6654
@cerberus6654 Жыл бұрын
That's Dr. Ryan to you, lol!
@khalilharrouk297
@khalilharrouk297 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for all your videos 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@johnspizziri1919
@johnspizziri1919 Жыл бұрын
The frescoes are beautiful
@shineisland7447
@shineisland7447 Жыл бұрын
Thank you ! 😍
@axor22
@axor22 Жыл бұрын
Another great video. Hope you do more of these around Europe.
@hmao4466
@hmao4466 Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@websoldier4576
@websoldier4576 Жыл бұрын
Love to have the marble floor recreated for my home
@ChefEarthenware
@ChefEarthenware Жыл бұрын
Why didn't I know about this channel? I've been subscribed to your other channel for ages.
@RickLowrance
@RickLowrance Жыл бұрын
Very cool. Thanks for providing this.
@EggShen905
@EggShen905 Жыл бұрын
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.
@digitalversatiledisc69
@digitalversatiledisc69 Жыл бұрын
Wish I had the means to visit these amazing places.
@josephtrahan8045
@josephtrahan8045 Жыл бұрын
Very cool thank you! Just want I wanted to see🙀😃
@ankou6
@ankou6 Жыл бұрын
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?
@giuseppefornari5777
@giuseppefornari5777 4 ай бұрын
This is the best preserved (and partially reconstructed) Temple in Northern Italy. The absolutely best in Italy is the Pantheon in Rome.
@CigarAttache
@CigarAttache Жыл бұрын
Roman bronze statuary are much more impressive than the marble work 👍🏼👍🏼
@lindacensi2750
@lindacensi2750 Жыл бұрын
Wow l interno é davvero notevolissimo !
@noobie64
@noobie64 Жыл бұрын
It must have survived because it became a Church? Incredible to see a bronze pagan goddess statue in such complete condition.
@alessiorenzoni5586
@alessiorenzoni5586 Жыл бұрын
🇮🇹🤓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.
@davidallen8611
@davidallen8611 Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure I saw a Roman ruin in Nashville Tennessee today…..
@marial8235
@marial8235 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the locals have considering restoring marble to the facade…
@summerwell8262
@summerwell8262 Жыл бұрын
But what about the third room of the temple?
@archadeinteriors
@archadeinteriors 11 ай бұрын
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!
@archadeinteriors
@archadeinteriors 11 ай бұрын
oh wait it's a reconstruction with some supporting elements, is that the reason for the unbalanced, multicolored, chaotic appearance?
@Romalvx
@Romalvx Жыл бұрын
Amazing, unfairly neglected treasures!
@JPKnapp-ro6xm
@JPKnapp-ro6xm 2 ай бұрын
The best preserved Roman temple in Italy is the Pantheon. Even the floor is 80% original.
@jpvansplunder
@jpvansplunder Жыл бұрын
Just keep your eyes on that statue, just to be sure.
@marcelpavlik7976
@marcelpavlik7976 Жыл бұрын
does anyone know why nike and victory have wings?
@trolley4388
@trolley4388 Жыл бұрын
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.
@mikeg2306
@mikeg2306 Жыл бұрын
The Pantheon was a pagan Roman temple and is still in use.
@user-jv9qz2bu1r
@user-jv9qz2bu1r 5 ай бұрын
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.
@electrum310
@electrum310 8 ай бұрын
The best preserved roman temple in Italy is the Pantheon in Rome.
@Stelios.Posantzis
@Stelios.Posantzis Жыл бұрын
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.
@mariusregulus4059
@mariusregulus4059 Жыл бұрын
The best preserved Roman temple in Rome is The Pantheon...!!!
@CEIVE4EVER
@CEIVE4EVER Жыл бұрын
The best pre-what???
@Caligulashorse1453
@Caligulashorse1453 Жыл бұрын
Last
@tjwhite1963
@tjwhite1963 Жыл бұрын
Love your presentation! However, your speech is difficult to understand at times, because you unfortunately tend to rush through certain words now and then. It's not that you have a 'foreign accent' (you don't); it's simply that (apparently) nobody these days is teaching young people proper elocution. (In other words, you're hardly alone in this. ... 😞 ) The best, well-meant advice I can give you is, please try to slow down, and imagine at all times that you're speaking SLOOOOOWWWWWLY so that a group of non-native English-speakers will be able to understand you better. In other words, video presentations like this *cannot* be made, using a natural, normal, conversational speed of talking. It just doesn't work. One has to use a mode of speech specifically made for public presentations, which is to say, considerably slowed down, with pauses and rising tones now and then for emphasis. If there is still a 'Toastmasters' group meeting anywhere near you, you should consider joining and attending their meetings. Their entire purpose is to help people learn better public speaking. Best wishes!
@creeproot
@creeproot Жыл бұрын
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