Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

The Colosseum in Rome is the most popular tourist attractions ... Instead, it’s named after the Colossus of Nero, a nearly 100-foot-tall bronze statue of (and commissioned by) Emperor Nero.

Like an open-air museum, Rome has a profusion of architectural ... probably because of the Colossus of Nero, a gigantic ...

Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill ... named for the more than 100-foot-tall bronze statue of Nero depicted as the sun god—the Colossus Neronis—that once loomed over the valley.

Rome wasn't built in a day ... Yet there was once an enormous, 103-foot statue standing outside it, the Colossus of Nero, which was almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty is from heel to head.

Rome was appalled. Matricide – the murder of one’s own mother – was among the worst possible crimes. Tolerance of Nero’s depravity ebbed away and Rome faced a series of bad omens.

Nero is accused of having "fiddled while Rome burned" and remembered for executing his mother and burning Christians alive. History has sided against him on all counts, but could there be another ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

Brought back from exile, he and his friends would virtually rule Rome in the first years of Nero's reign. The second son of a wealthy family, Seneca was educated in the philosophy of the Sextii.