At present, Agèmina S.r.l. is engaged in providing archaeological services in the eastern sector of the Domus Aurea. On behalf of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma and the Contractor, the Company’s archaeologists furnish assistance to the restoration of the monument and to the external archaeological excavations. In addition to catalogueing the rooms, they give technical support for the correct architectonic repositioning of the reconstruction works, they continuously prepare the photographic documentation of the activities and, where requested, provide drawings and architectonic sketches to be able to intervene opportunely in the case of emergencies not foreseen in the planning phase.

The Domus Aurea

ìAfter the fire which devastated Rome in 64 B.C., Nero built a new imperial residence, whose magnificence accounts for the appellative “Golden House”. Its realisation was entrusted to the architects Celer and Severus, while the extraordinary decorations were the work of the painter Fabullus. The sumptuous building, which was inspired by the palaces of the oriental dynasties, was set out like a suburban villa and covered an area of 80 hectares between the Palatine, Esquiline, Oppian and Caelian hills. The enormous complex included vineyards, woods, an artifical lake, rich furnishings and precious treasures plundered in the East. On the death of the tyrant, the Flavians, to free themselves of such an unpopular inheritance, gave back for public use the area occupied by the irreverent royal palace. Although the Pavilion on the Oppian Hill survived the Flavians’urban renewal, in 104 A.D. Trajan reused it as a thermal complex. If, on the one hand, filling the Domus Aurea with earth and exploiting it for the foundations of the new baths cancelled its memory, on the other it has enabled conservation until the present day. Abbandoned after the siege by the Ostrogoths in 539, the area of the baths was used for agriculture until the Renaissance, when curious people and artists lowered themselves into the buried areas and discovered the wonders contained there.

8 – 29 May – 12 – 26 June 2011
Extraordinary opening of the underground area and the upper third level. Guided visit to the Colosseum as never seen before.

15 April – 6 & 20 May – 4 June 2011
Guided visit to the exhibition
“Lorenzo Lotto” at the Scuderie
del Quirinale.

16 & 30 April 2011
Guided visit to the exhibition “Impressionism, Expressionism, Avant-garde” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

24 February – 12 June 2011
Guided visit to the exhibition “Dante Gavriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones” at the National Gallery of Modern Art.