found, on the Palatine Hill, the 'coenatio rotunda', or better 'dining room of Nero' which ran day and night imitating the motion of the earth. To date, many scholars had been identified in the octagonal room on the Colle Oppio. It is located exactly in the Vigna Barberini and e 'emerged during the work of consolidation of the area. E'''was an accidental discovery - said Mariantonietta Tomei, director of the Palatine - We were doing work with by the superintendent to carry out geological surveys. We started digging and found a powerful structure, never seen before, which makes us think of a classroom due to the rotating dining room of Nero.''
Work began in June to continue until it is out of the total area to identify which is the operation of this rotating room:''So far we have found two piles - Tomei continues - and box office filled with a substance that allows the rotation of a building that, according to Suetonius, turning slowly and was decorated with waterfalls of flowers.''
The entire structure could be extended to about 60m in length. Dating after the fire 64d.C. and before damnatio memoriae of Nero began the Flavian, stood overlooking the valley of the Colosseum, then occupied by an artificial lake, allowing a 360 ° view from the Capitol on the Aventine, the Celio hill to continue the excavation of Velia.Per Commissioner archaeological area of \u200b\u200bRome, Roberto Cecchi, provided funding of 200,000 €.
