Today we're going to take a look at Italplastico, the great model of imperial Rome, made by hand. The Plastico is one of the greatest things about the museum. And what it is is a representation of all of ancient Rome within the walls, about 3,000 acres, and everything that was contained inside of it. And when it was constructed in the early 20th century, it represented all that base of knowledge, what we knew about ancient Rome. So today we know more information, but still today for its size and scale, and the fact that you can walk around with the bird's eye perspective, it is unsurpassed. The archaeologist and architect, Italogis Mondi, created this amazing model. The model is on a scale of 1 to 250, it's about 20 by 20 meters, matching the original scale and size of the Severin former Herbus marble map, recently reopened in a new museum on the Kyliein Hill. Just Mondi worked on the model between 1933 and 1937. And afterward, it was further amplified when located in the Roman Civilization Museum in Aeor. Now besides the former Herbus map and fragments, it is also based on Rudolfo Lanchani's former Herbus, a richly documented map of new discoveries made in the 1890s and it was published in 1901 at a scale of 1 to 1000. Just Mondi's model is known in a time as Ileplastico, and the model was made by hand out of Alabaster Choc, metal frameworks, and vegetable fibers. It's divided into 150 sections. Just Mondi's ancient Rome represents the constantinian age of imperial Rome, so as to include all the great pagan monuments and buildings of the imperial city. The plastico famously appeared in the film Gladiator, to give an awesome view of the city from above. And no matter how many times today we are amazed with computer-generated models of ancient Rome, this nearly 100-year-old handmade model still thrills and inspires the visitor today. The plastico, or the great model of ancient Rome, dating to the time of Constantine, is an incredible wonder. When you come to the museum, you really get a sense here of what ancient Rome was like. Now what's it based upon? It's based upon archaeological evidence. It's based upon the fragments of a plan, the famous former Herbus, which essentially was plastered on a wall in the form of this Bayesian. And ultimately, we only have small amounts of the fragments recomposed, but it helps give us that picture of what ancient Rome looks like. Then you have many people for hundreds of years studying Rome, making their own plans, archaeological endeavors, and so we fill it out. And this is what is represented in the base knowledge of what we have in the early 20th century. And still today, in the 21st century, it is a grand achievement. You can walk around and get a bird's eye perspective at the expense of this great megalopolis, this great cosmopolitan center. You can see everything within the walls, the ancient walls, built by the emperor Aurelian in the 3rd century AD. You can see all 14 regions from the Emporium and Warehouse District and to Stachio, over to the Aventine Hill, down over to the Bazaar Caracalla, along the Via Apia, the Circus Maximus, the Palatine Hill, where we get the palace and residence of the Emperors, the aqueduct lines coming in, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Bazaar Diocletian, the Quirinal Hill, over into the campus marshes with great famous monuments like the Theodore Marcellus, the Theodore of Balbus, the Theodore of Pompey, the stadium, and the Pantheon. And all the way over to Castel San Angelo, and what will eventually become the site of St. Peters. Let's explore more of the plástico now. We have the chance to admire the Aurelianic wall circuit reconstructed. And as we go along, we see the towers, most of which aren't so well preserved here. They are reconstructed. We also have inside the city an impressive aqueduct line extending. And then you have a lot of the open spaces that are filled in by just Monday, with trees, as well as a number of other monuments, whether villas or tombs of varying periods. But I think one thing that we can say about this map as a whole is that there's been given a kind of a total approach to give us a city that's in use, and a city that's also landscaped. Here we're following along the aqua cloudy as it makes its way through the Kylie and Hill descending towards the Palatine. Now we know as it gets close to the Palatine today through recent archaeological studies, there was a siphon system to push that water up the hill. Here we have it as a large aqueduct bridge, part of which anyways is still visible on the Palatine Hill today. Here we have a section of the Riananac wall circuit, but also the impressive Anionovus and the aqua cloudy are coming in right at Porta Majority, right in front of it is the Yurusakis tomb. So we have a lot of archaeology that we can see along the walls. Here we have an example of monuments pre-existing that are incorporated into the Riananac wall circuit. It's the Augustan Age pyramid of Sestius by the Austian Gate. Here we can follow along the Tyber River. We can see that much of the area along the Tyber River was fortified in the Marcius area as we go past the mausoleum of Hadrian, also see all the bridges in the city. Here we're passing in today's Tastacio area. We see it's a warehouse district on both sides of the Tyber River, both in the Stavere side as well as the Tastacio side. And here we actually see Mons Tastacius, that hill of crushed Amphorai that still is visible today and much of this area is a warehouse district. Some of the remains of some of those warehouses going back to the second century BC are still visible. Here we have a stunning view of the Baza of Kaurakala along the Via Apia. And from here we have the Tyber Island, linked by the Ponsestius and the Pons Fabricius, as we pivot up towards past the Formal RM towards the Circus Maximus. And of course the Circus Maximus was the ultimate entertainment venue in the city of Rome holding hundreds of thousands of spectators and along its length they're developed the Palace of the Amperors. Here's a view in the distance of the Temple of Jupiter, Optus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill and in the foreground it is this magnificent palace. The Palace of Demission, now we're passing along the exterior facade of the Severant Edition including the Septusodium. Behind it is the Aquarach line of the Aquaclaudia and the Colosseum and the Colossus. Here's a great view of the Imperial Fora as well as the Roman Forum. And this is the core of the ancient city and we see a lot of his attention has been drawn to this area all lined with portacos. Here's a view of the Colosseum, the Baza of Titus and the Baza of Trajan, the Temple of Venus and Rome overlooking the Colosseum. The Colosseum here again is that Temple of Venus and Rome, the Colosseum and the Baza of Trajan, the Baza of Titus and the four gladiatorial schools. There will stand out being the Lutus Magnus. Behind the Medesudans we can see the Arch of Constantine that reminds us that the date of the city that's on view is Constantinian. We travel down again the type of river we can see the magnificent Museum of Hadrian and from here we're at Monts-Vaticanis on the Tristevedeside pivoting over to the campus marshes and that track that we see along the water is the Tragarium. From the mausoleum of Augustus pivoting up toward the facade of the Hadrianic Pantheon. And just looking across the campus marshes spread in the distance the theater of Marcellus here in the foreground the theater of Pompey, so magnificent and so large. The smaller theater structures actually the Odeon, the musical hall of Demission right next to the stadium of Demission and above it is the Baza of Alexander Severus and then the Pantheon. I'm going to give some view of the campus marshes again now looking at that open space which is the circus flaminius lined with temples next to the theater of Marcellus pivoting over to the Forum Baurium. We hope you enjoyed this view of the Plastico by Jizmondi. It really is a magnificent representation of the Imperial City. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe and follow along and of course you can take one of our courses. Just go on the website and get involved.