OK so water drips in there?

@@Hborn Yes and the floor is shaped in a way that it flows away

you!

Of course the Lupanarium of Pompeii, the whorehouse.

Sydney Opera House.

I was there last week. It's amazing architecture and its enormous dome.

It’s my favorite roman buiding. Went 6 times in Rome, never failed to visit it each time. Wonderful and stunning from every point of view ! Most copied architecture in the world, including the ceiling coffers copied everywhere

We’ve been to Rome 30 times. Call it home you are so right.

true, but in the States, it leads to very modern, clean like new suburbs, roads, building etc....In Europe you can have a very old beautifull thing nearby a really big architectural shit.....We can t have it all.

I was there 2 days ago. It was a mind blowing experience!

Rome is home to all. We are all romans

Yes, majesty defines the Pantheon, and I believe “magnanimitas” defines the imperium of Hadrian, who may have been a co-architect on the Pantheon. He was one of history’s greatest, most intelligent and generous, yet least appreciated, leaders.

The Glory of Greece. The Grandeur of Rome. The maxim of the Ages

Did you throw a coin in the Trevi fountain?

@@duaneweaver537 Yes. Hope to return one day!

I had the same feeling the first time I saw it

He he he. I read your comment really fast and I thought you wrote: "the Pantheon was always a special shopping destination for me". And I thought to myself, "Oh my gosh!!! What in the world are they selling in there? And what in the world are you buying!!" Anyway, that put a smile on my face, while I was reading these comments with a stern, serious, and educational-seeking mind-set.

Agreed, we were there 5 years ago. You walk down very average (for Rome) narrow streets and you pop out into a square and BAM! Here’s this beautiful, ancient building. Incredible

The most awe inspiring building I've ever been in.

I believe the floor as you see it now is quite recent , ?1856.

@@johnduheaume6650 No, the floor is the original floor from when the Pantheon was built.

@Neophema Sorry but that is not what we were told or what my guide book tells me , it certainly doesn't look 2000 years old, what are your references? With respect it's difficult to take comments seriously from a source that doesn't give a name, I took quite detailed photographs of the floor at my last visit but can't attach them here obviously, yours John du Heaume.📷

@@johnduheaume6650 google it, it’s the original floor.

My further searching comes up with a date ot 1878 for a restoration of the floor based on the ? Original? marble floor in keeping with the previous geometric design and colour scheme, what you see now and walk on is not in any way totally original from 2000 years ago. Also the statements about any rain falling in from the oculus has to evaporate is wrong, there are drainage holes in the centre.

It is a wonderful building. I had a similar experience 👍

Hunt down chinese food next time you are in Rome. I'm not joking. Because Italian food is so delicious, the Chinese have to up their game. I had duck fried rice with that heavy red wine. Fantastic food.

I had the same experience. I came away impressed, but this video dramatically helped me appreciate its significance

You can only imagine how beautiful it would have looked seeing it in person 2000 years ago, literally breath taking

The enchantment you had when you saw that interior is courtesy of The European People.

thank you that! incredible

It's survival, despite some thefts as noted, was greatly facilitated its early conversion into a Christian church. The Roman Forum and most temples and other buildings got almost entirely recycled (the Colosseum being a victim, too). Ancient Egyptian buildings such as the pyramids underwent much greater recycling. Most (though not all) 4th Dynasty pyramids avoided total destruction by just being too big to be carried away in entirety, and being built of massive stone blocks. Ancient buildings perished by greedy human hands, not so much due to weathering and earthquakes.

More like Built with sophisticated Romanhand tools and techniques, nothing primative.

The story I heard is that the barbarians who sacked and destroyed Rome were paid separately not to damage the Pantheon… and were told if they did, it would bring them very bad luck as it was dedicated to all Gods ( including theirs).

Recycled is such a gentle word for the willful destruction that was the fate of the other buildings. @@awuma

Wow. Thought he just might be Italian. You know...considering the subject

Luxor temple easily....

The Blue Mosque

Sagrada La Familia is goated

My bathroom

100 percent dome size 😊

He was a much better pope than the current one.

One mental trick I sometimes use with myself, is place the bar incredibly low and expect nothing. Then allow yourself to be awed beyond belief, when you actually step inside for the VERY first time!!

@@mikeifyouplease I think that is a very good way to approach many things. But, my goodness, to think that the Romans walked there, that they, too, were awed. I enjoyed your reply.

@@myfluffyflufferton Thanks for the compliment. I think that the Pantheon is probably the most impressive and best preserved building or structure from the Ancient World we have ever seen, especially considering how it is STILL the largest unreinforced concrete dome on Earth! And how it ever survived intact, considering all the wars it has been through both modern and Ancient,...is truly an unbelievable and unexplainable miracle!

You will love it.

It's a luciferian temple, don't get too worked up.

It’s architecture did not , we call it Victorian

Hadn’t fallen apart

The architecture would still have changed with time.

All empires fall apart, all of them, no exceptions.

@@garyfrancis6193 grammar nazi spotted..🚩

After Caesar!

It was built centuries after him.

Well, Not the first Caesar! Julius Caesar but yes to Augustus and the rest of the Roman Emperors.

As noted in the video, it has been robbed of a lot of its decoration, especially bronze which was stripped to make, among other things, cannon. Also, it was converted into a church around the 7th century or so.

Thank you Denny, I’m glad you enjoyed!

dude we have the exact same interests, except for music theory, and less so with moral ethos.

@@tvre0 Cool! I never meet anyone with my interests--except the occasional architecture fan, or folks who work in bio-tech. But then it's very frustrating to actually get them to talk discursively about the unbelievable miraculous contingent "gearing" that happens a trillion quintillion times in the biosphere every day during routine intracellular mechanics, and the three billion years that single cells had (needed or not?) to perfect their innards. I'm completely stupified by the wonderful complexity and symmetry and implausibility of everything that exists. How can you not be totally bowled over by ethics? We are THE moral metazoan. Ethical ideation is the beating heart of flat-line consciousness, the wet, warm soul of the dry, soulless encephalon! We can feel passionate, exuberant love only because we're capable of cold-blooded murder, and vice-versa. The obligate contradiction is riveting to me. Are you familiar with Scipio Africanus, Vercingetorix, Boethius, Bartholome de las Casas, Silas Soule, Nikolai Vavilov or Dietrich Bonhoeffer? All incredibly deep, morally brilliant men, and circumstantially tragic heroes of history. Sometimes I can't sleep just thinking about the moral, and sometimes corporal, misery they endured. And they're but six tiny drops of very typical complexity in the vast ocean of human moral history. Just typing their names humbles me.

The coffers are copied everywhere in the world. They ally beauty+functionality. Génial !

It is now a church.

@@davidknox5929 Yes, that's why they were singing hymns.

Thank you, Luke!

It’s my favorite building on earth too !

The Arena of Nîmes may be a bit older. It is still used for bullfights and other events, unlike its bigger contemporary, the Roman Colosseum.

​@@awuma The Arena di Verona (currently the world's largest open-air opera house) is even older than Nîmes, but all these amphitheatres have been exploited in various ways over the centuries, the Colosseum is an archaeological park and happens to host special events, FYI. It is not abandoned at all. The point is that the Pantheon has always been used continuously and practically always for the same purpose. It can only be compared with other similar buildings, not with open spaces, which have changed over time, such as the Circus Maximus in Rome. Today the Pantheon is a temple like it was when built, both functionally and aesthetically. The colossal bronze doors and the floor are the original ones! Perhaps only during the millennium was there such a powerful and long-respected construction that we don't have anymore, otherwise there is no comparison. The Nîmes Arena is yet another recovered Roman amphitheatre, the Colosseum is the most astonishing Roman amphitheatre ever built, it doesn't need to be occupied by activities other than study, conservation and admiration. But if it were not a museum, it would be adapted for use in exactly the same way as many amphitheatres are. And it would be stupendous.

Well..we did create the gods...but forgot that and became their slaves....so to speak.

Did the gods build the building?

@@Lv-nq9qz Not really... actually it was built under the Emperor Hadrian... who happened to be OPENLY GAY!

OK it can't rain in that hole in the roof how?