Nero's Golden Palace, the Domus Aurea, stretched across the center of the city -- from the Aventine all the way to the Esquiline. Construction on the home began in 64 AD, after a great fire damaged 10 of the city's 14 districts. Almost as soon as the fire was extinguished, rumors began to circulate through the city that Nero had started the fire himself to clear space for his new home and to provide a majestic backdrop for his performance of "The Fall of Troy."
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