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Domus Aurea

After the great fire of Rome of 64 A.D. the 2/3rd of the city lay in ruins. The emperor Nero took this opportunity to build a extravagant palace complex on the devastated site. This Domus Aurea, or golden palace, which was actually a series of palaces and gardens, captured the country life within the city walls. The building took such a vast area that his successors had to demolish great parts of it and erect public buildings on the site to unnerve the rumors that Nero himself was responsible for the fire, to return Rome to itself as Martialis wrote. Fact is that alongside the building campaign of the Domus Aurea Nero also commissioned city renewal and ordered new laws that prescribed minimal street widths and maximal density to prevent fire from spreading.