Former Site of the Circus of Nero (Rome)

Vatican City / Rome
 building, ruins, circus, Roman Empire, invisible, historical layer / disappeared object
It was begun by Caligula on the property of his mother Agrippina on the Ager Vaticanus (today's rione of Borgo), and finished by Nero. The building's alignment is on the same west-east axis as both the old and new St Peter's, to the left as you look at the western front of the Basilica from the Piazza San Pietro.

Excavations conducted during the 1960's identified the (surprisingly abundant) structural remnants of the Circus, approximately 15 feet below the present-day surface of the Piazza.

For further information, follow the URL below.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_of_Nero
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Coordinates:   41°54'6"N   12°27'18"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago