Refurbished Golden Palace of Emperor Nero reopens in Rome

Today we have reopened the western sector of the Domus Aurea, closed to the public for several years. And with this sector you will be able to see some very fascinating rooms, such as the room of the Volta delle Civette, the room of the Volta Gialla, with the signature of a Renaissance artist like the painter Pinturicchio. Because this place was a place of inspiration for Raffaello and all the Renaissance painters. We are very grateful to Alfonsina Russo for involving us in this reopening of the western sector of the Domus Aurea, which is a historical date for the public closure of this monument. We did it on his request, on his proposal, with a loan, at the expense of a dancing manatee, the collection of Uffizi, of which we do not know the origin, but whose aesthetics, whose iconographic model allows us to refer to the Hellenistic models, Alessandrini of the Neronian era. Moreover, the same type of iconography occurs in a painting of the faces of the Domus Aurea, so this loan temporarily allows us, the visitor, to immerse ourselves, even if in a fragmentary way, in the cultural and aesthetic universe of the Roman world of the first century after this. Above all, we also want our audience to be able to participate in the restoration activities, because in the western sector it has been reopened thanks to the safety measure, but we will still have to clean and restore all the frescoed walls, so we are planning to open the restoration activities to the public on Friday, so the public will be able to interlocute with the restorers during the restoration of the frescoed walls. We are a ministry, as a ministry and a national administration, we work in a team and it is normal, right and virtuous, that projects carried out by colleagues find the support of other colleagues, as it was in this case. It is not only a professional duty and it is part of our missions, but also a real pleasure, because when you manage to work in a team with this quality and this effort, I would say that it is a personal satisfaction for everyone.