Maison Carrée / Roman Historic Temple – Nimes France – ECTV
Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark’s Travel Videos and I’m in uh Nim, France and behind me is Mason Kari and I’m sure I’m not saying that right, but it’s a temple, a Roman temple from, you know, 2,000 years ago. Let’s take a look. It’s pretty amazing. Look at that. That is incredible. Wow. Wow. Wow. shut the door. And I think they said it’s the only fully intact temple left or something. I I don’t know for sure, but I I thought I read that somewhere. And you know how that goes. Every place has a a different uh take on what you consider a completed temple, but this one looks uh amazing. Wow. That is incredible. Wow. Wow. Look at that. Wow. Incredible. You can catch the sun right in between the cracks there. It’s kind of nice. And this is a UNESCO World Heritage site. And let me I I I’m sure I’m pronouncing it wrong, but I’ll show you. It’s It’s I’m saying it the way it looks to me. La Mason Kari in Nims. I don’t know uh the right way to say it, but that looks uh pretty good. Wow. Get out of here. And imagine this is this could have been Zeus’s temple or somebody else’s temple or I mean gosh you I’ll even let you la and a cult the cult of the emperor and his family started at the beginning of the empire an inscription dedicated to the temple of emperor Augustus grandson and adopted sons the prince of youth. Wow. Get out of here. It’s hard to see this. The sun’s in my eyes, so I can’t tell. I think it’s focused and I think you’re getting it all. But, uh, wow. Wow. Wow. And the whole area is just protecting it, so it’s pretty cool. Wow. Wow. Wow. All right. Well, let’s go inside. And I think you can go inside. You just need a ticket. But, uh, look at the columns. And some of them look like they’re pretty intact. And some of them look like they’re a little weathered or broken or abused or what have you. But all right, let me get my glasses off. Wow. That’s amazing. And the big doors. All right, I’ll be back. All right, everybody. So, this is the inside of what a temple would look like. And it’s just a big wide open space. The ceilings all supported and everything else. And it is incredible. Cult emperor. And I’m sure there were statues and things in here. And maybe this is how it used to look back in the old days. Can you see it? So it had a ground around it. Um, yeah, that’s pretty amazing. Wow. And look, it would have been surrounded by a courtyard with pillars all the way around the whole entire courtyard. And the only way in would have been this entryway right here. Wow. Get out of here. That’s incredible. Wow. And here’s it again. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. All right. Well, let me get back to the beginning and I’ll see if I can get you all the the text for it. I just can’t get over the courtyard that surrounds the whole thing, too, you know. Man. Okay, let’s get back over here. And this is uh my UNESCO site. Recenter my camera. Here you go. So, hit pause if you want to read that. Mason carrying nims was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in the world September 201. Okay. And this is you’re at the heart of the Roman Empire. The Gaelic people of Celtic origin territory 4th century BC. In the 2nd century BC when the Romans are here. Wow. That’s pretty incredible. Wow. Wow. Wow. So, let’s see if I can get that right for you. Hit pause if you want to read that, too. Mason Curia is one of the few surviving Roman temples. It was built between the last year of the first century but BC and the first year of the first century AD. The temple was dedicated to okay the grandsons of Augustus. Wow. Oh, I guess those were his grandsons. Amazing. Oh, look at that. Huh. Wow. Wow. Wow. All right. Hit pause if you want to read that all Korean masterpiece of Roman architecture. Oh, it is. Wow, man. Can you read all that? here. Let me see if I can pay attention and stop reading. Wow. There’s people over there. So, I just can’t get past this thing. That is just silly amazing. Wow. Lord, that’s not English. That’s not Is this English one thing? Yes. Here we go. You know, you got to you got to read it for a second to figure out where the English part is. Okay. Gross memory. dialogue between these two architectures that are more than 2,000 years apart. Amazing. Wow. Wow. It pause. It required more than 44,000 hours of work by numerous crafts people, stones, missions, and restoers. The Mason Creek can now be approached its third millennium without fear. Wow. Let’s see. There we go. The temple of noon tensified thanks to continuous use of over the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire. The barbarian invasion of the gallon cities retreated behind the cool. Wow. And so if you bought tickets um you could go in and see the museum. And so these are all the things that were in here, I guess. Um, from here museum. Look at that. Statues and everything else. That’s pretty amazing. Wow. Wow. How amazing is this? And there’s so much more to I mean that I can share, but there’s just I think you’re going to be uh overwhelmed. Hit pause again. Oh, and these are the things that were taken off that were on top of the church. Oh, and the statues. And I think that’s these things here. Wow. Wow. And look at the Everything is just so intact and so amazing. Jiminy crickets. The Nims the Mason carry is one of the oldest and best preserved examples of Roman temple dedicated to the dynastic imperial cult and undoubtedly a monument of remarkable architecture of La. Wow. Wow. Wow. All right, everybody. Just simply amazing, huh? Okay. Well, I think I’m going to go back outside and look at it some more. It’s pretty amazing. Wow. Wow. Wow. Just incredible. Wow. Pretty steep stairs. So, you have to imagine that building that used to be here probably went all the way down to the end of that street. You know what I mean? And then uh surrounded this cuz this is the entryway. So, based on that little mockup thing they had um it went all the way down there. These buildings are sitting on top of the the big courtyard. But imagine how much of this city I mean they have an arena amphitheater thing. They have uh man shut the door. That is truly incredible. Wow. I’m walking backwards. I’m trying not to bust my butt. Wow. All right. Okay. So, you see these things? These used to be those pillars that made up that courtyard. See this one here, too? And those things above the ground there. So, those used to be pillars like these pillars, but higher. Um, and then surrounded the entire courtyard. Um, man. Wow. Wow. Wow. Golly jeepers. How often do you get to see something like this? You got to go out of your way to get here to see these things. But you know what? It’s worth every bit of it. You know, I always tell myself that if I were to win the lottery, I’d build one of these and make a house out of it in the middle. But, uh, wow. Just amazing, everybody. All right. I keep telling you I’m going to stop, but I don’t want to stop. I just want to keep filling. Can you imagine? So, they’ve got lights all the way around it. Can you imagine this at night? All lit up. Oh my gosh. It would be incredible. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I know. I’ll stop. Okay. Okay. Free. Amazing everybody.
The Maison carrée (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ kaʁe]; French for “square house”) is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the Imperial cult,[2] a caesareum.
The Maison carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol,[3] which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison carrée while he was minister to France in 1785.[4]
History
Illustration of critique of Dissertation sur l’ancienne inscription de la Maison-Carrée de Nismes published in Acta Eruditorum, 1760
In about 4–7 AD,[7] the Maison carrée was dedicated or rededicated to Gaius and Lucius Caesar, grandsons and adopted heirs of Augustus who both died young. The inscription dedicating the temple to Gaius and Lucius was removed in medieval times. However, a local scholar, Jean-François Séguier, was able to reconstruct the inscription in 1758 from the order and number of the holes on the front frieze and architrave, to which the bronze letters had been affixed by projecting tines. According to Séguier’s reconstruction, the text of the dedication read (in translation): “To Gaius Caesar, son of Augustus, Consul; to Lucius Caesar, son of Augustus, Consul designate; to the princes of youth.”[8] During the 19th century the temple slowly began to recover its original splendour, due to the efforts of Victor Grangent.
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